The meter had been taken out; and to drink by the flash of an electric torch was anything but a pleasing prospect.

In classical times imaginative and creative literature was almost universally composed in meter, with the result that the metrical form was usually thought to be distinctive of poetry.

Thus he refuses to classify as poetry the scientific writings which Empedocles had composed in meter as well as the histories of Herodotus, even if he had written them in verse.

Indeed, he states explicitly that most forms of poetry do use all of the media mentioned: rhythm, tune, and meter.

He is only insisting that imitation in unmetrical language is still poetry; that meter is not the characteristic element of poetic.

He should choose a subject he can handle; he should plan it so that it be unified and coherent, and have each element in the right place; he should choose words in good use, and write in an appropriate meter.

And though both verse and oratorical prose should be rhythmical, a set rhythm, a meter, is appropriate only to verse.[90]

Formerly rhythm and meter were the distinguishing marks of the poet, but the orators in his days, he says, made increasing use of rhythm.

Meter is a vice in an orator and should be shunned.

To Dionysius the best prose is that which resembles verse although not entirely in meter, and the best poetry that which resembles beautiful prose.

His sixth chapter, on ornament in meter and prose, presents what he has up to this left unsaid about style.

The remainder of the first book deals with meter and verse forms, baldly of prose rhythm, epizeuxis, conceited verses, and various rhetorical figures.

If the definition goes no further, then the only difference between the poet and the orator lies in the Ciceronian dictum that the poet was more restricted in his use of meter.

Maggi and Tifernas echo Cicero that the poet and the orator are the nearest neighbors, differing only in that the poet is slightly more restricted by meter.

Meter he deemed essential to poetry, but rime he disliked.

Because our minds delight greatly in song and harmony, the early poets used meter and rhythm better to incline the soul of man to virtue and morality.

According to Prickard, Aristotle means that poetry must be in meter, but that not all meter is poetry.

According to Prickard, Aristotle means that poetry must be in meter, but that not all meter is poetry.

"Oh, never mindgo farther onanylong meter," uttered his interlocutor, and he forthwith made a sanguine dash into the centre of the book, and gave out a hymn.

" "You want to wait a couple of minutesoff the meter?

According to measurements of Dr. Julius Schmidt, who is not long since dead, and was the director of the Observatory at Athens, a number of these plants grow in the Valley of Cephisus, and attain a height of as much as two meters, the spathe alone measuring nearly one meter.

The gas meter was invented by Clegg in 1816.

per lineal meter traveling over the viaduct at a velocity of 60 kilometers, or about 37 miles, per hour.

This consists essentially of a converter about 1 meter outside diameter, and 1.5 meters high, connected by a single trunnion to a horizontal steel shaft carried by the arm of a hydraulic crane which is very similar in character to the ladle crane of a large sized converter.

This would require spheres having radii of about one meter.

No metre had any difficulties for her, and no theme seemed dull to her vivid intelligence,her fancy being roused to action in a moment, by the barest hint given either by Nature or Art.

James hovered about, put out and miserable, but active and exact as ever; read to her, when there was a lull, short bits from the Psalms, prose and metre, chanting the latter in his own rude and serious way, showing great knowledge of the fit words, bearing up like a man, and doating over her as his "ain Ailie."

Not that the mob knows anything about feet or metre; nor do they understand what it is that offends them, or know why or in what it offends them.

But the iambics of the common poets are, on account of their likeness to ordinary conversation, very often in such a very low style, that sometimes it is hardly possible to discover any metre, or even rhythm in them.

It is quite plain, therefore, that oratory ought to be confined to rhythm, and kept clear of metre.

His attempts to complete it in 1800 brought persistently to his mind the project of a philosophy of poetry, and especially of this poem, as we may infer from a letter to Poole in March, 1801: "I shall ... immediately publish my 'Christabel,' with two essays annexed to it, on the 'Preternatural' and on 'Metre.'"

When the two cantos were at last printed in 1816, Coleridge wrote in the Preface: "The metre of the 'Christabel' is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new principle: namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables.

He asserts that he is guided in his choice of definite styles and definite forms by an absolutely clear purpose; that he has, for example, essayed every kind of metre which could possibly be suited to his "cosmic" epic, or that he has written a novelette solely in order to have once written a novelette.

Only one antique metre became German, in the same sense that Shakespeare had become a German poet; this was the hexameter, alone or in connection with the pentameter; for the ratio of its parts to one another, on which everything depends in higher metrics, corresponded, to some extent, to that of the German couplets.

[This curious imitation of the ternary metre of Dante was written at the age of seventy-seven.]

Trochaic Verse; its Nature Observations on Trochaic Metre Trochaics shown in their 8 Measures Order III.

False Prosody, or Errors of Metre, Corrected THE FOUR APPENDIXES. Appendix I. (To Orthography.)

Webbe, in his Discourse of English Poetry (1586), gives hexametrical translations of the first and second eclogues, while another version of the second in the same metre appears first in Fraunce's Lawyer's Logic (1588), and again with corrections in his Ivychurch (1591).

It is composed in the rough accentual metre, and opens with a couplet which roused the ire of Dr. Johnson: Diggon Davie!

It remains to say a few words concerning the language of the Calender and the rough accentual metre in which parts of it are composed, since both have a particular bearing upon Spenser's attitude towards pastoral in general.

The influence of Chaucer was not confined to the language: from him Spenser borrowed the metre of a considerable portion of the Calender.

It is this prosody, dependent usually upon a strong caesural pause to differentiate it from prose, which may account for the harshness of some of Wyatt's verse, and which rendered possible the barbarous metre of Barclay.

There Naiis sings, roguishly enough, in the martial metre of Agincourt: 'Cloe, I scorne my Rime Should observe feet or time, Now I fall, then I clime, What is't I dare not?' 'Give thy Invention wing,

These constituted the first attempt in English at writing original eclogues in Vergilian metre, and the injudicious experiment has not, I believe, been repeated.

It is intended as blank verse, and it is true that the licences taken do not exceed those commonly allowed by the practice of dramatists such as Fletcher, but here they are wholly unregulated by any natural feeling for metre or rhythm, and the resuit can hardly be called pleasing.

How I hated the great Joseph G. and the Spenserian metre, with its exacting demands upon the rhyming faculty.

I knowed your address, and come up here short metre.

Like "The stretchèd metre of an antique song," they flow from our grateful lips in ready words.

One of the best tests in the world of what a poet really means is his metre.

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