The versification of the first stanza of this section is very lovely, and subtly responsive to the feeling. It exhibits the completest inspiration. No mere metrical skill, nor metrical sensibility even, could have produced it.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
{19} Marcus Manilius wrote under Tiberius a metrical treatise on Astronomy, of which five books on the fixed stars remain.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
There were other metrical versions of various parts of the Bible. Midway between Bede and Orm came Langland's poem, "The Vision of Piers Plowman," which paraphrased so much of the Scripture.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
We are told, that formerly the feet (the metrical feet) of the Caoinan were much attended to; but on the decline of the Irish bards these feet were gradually neglected, and the Caoinan fell into a sort of slipshod metre amongst women. Each province had different Caoinans, or at least different imitations of the original. There was the Munster cry, the Ulster cry, etc. It became an extempore performance, and every set of keepers varied the melody according to their own fancy.英文原著 · 《Castle Rackrent》
Metrical Romances of thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
FOLLIOTT. I, for one, sir, am content to learn nothing from you but the art and science of fish for breakfast. Be content, sir, to rival the Boeotians, whose redeeming virtue was in fish, touching which point you may consult Aristophanes and his scholiast in the passage of Lysistrata, [Greek text], and leave the name of Athenians to those who have a sense of the beautiful, and a perception of metrical quantity.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
Seriously, Bobby, isn't it incumbent upon us, those who've 'won' by any metric to acknowledge that we didn't do it alone, and to.美剧 · 《Billions》
And possibly women over 40, but we have no way of knowing because they're invisible to our site metrics.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》