Metre is the solvent in which alone thought and emotion can perfectly coalesce,the thought confining the emotion within decorous limitations of law, the emotion beguiling the thought into somewhat of its own fluent grace and rebellious animation.

"Metre, or Measure, is the number of poetical feet which a verse contains."Hiley cor.

"Metre or Measure is the number of poetical feet which a verse contains.

The metre she employed in this piece was the Spenserian stanza, which she handled with great power, freedom, and melody.

Metre is the solvent in which alone thought and emotion can perfectly coalesce,the thought confining the emotion within decorous limitations of law, the emotion beguiling the thought into somewhat of its own fluent grace and rebellious animation.

The attempt was first systematically made during the reign of Elizabeth, but the metre remained a feeble exotic that scarcely burgeoned under glass.

The metre, which is the basis of the whole system of French weights and measures, is the exact measurement of one forty-millionth part of a meridian of the earth.

And all the time that Byron's language is of horror and emptiness, his metre is a bounding 'pas de quatre.'

The metre is fourteen syllables, and capable of all sweetness and grandeur, Cowper's ponderous blank verse detains you every step with some heavy Miltonism; Chapman gallops off with you his own free pace.

[the metre of six trochees] is the longest species of Trochaic line known to English verse.