The North and the South, the East and the West had been mingled together; the heated and heaving mass had been tempered by the leaven of Christianity:and had all this been done only to produce an octo-syllabic metre in praise of fantastic and semi- barbaric sentiments and exploits?

He notes that in the fragments of the ancient verses which had been preserved until his day there were inserted between the significant words certain interjections and meaningless syllables, apparently to fill out the metre.

Some prosodists have taught the absurdity, that two feet are necessary to constitute a metre, and have accordingly applied the terms, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, and hexameter,or so many of them as they could so misapply,in a sense very different from the usual acceptation.

But while we frankly avow our infidelity as regards the metre, we as frankly confess our admiration of the high qualities of "Miles Standish."

Warehouses and depots covering 41,985 square metres completed.

At this camp we had come down the river about 102 kilometres, according to the surveying records, and in height had descended nearly 100 metres, as shown by the aneroidalthough the figure in this case is only an approximation, as an aneroid cannot be depended on for absolute accuracy of results.

The change restores the metre.

[70] In the original copy this negative is by some accident thrust into the next line, so as to destroy at once the metre and the meaning.

He told me that he had versified in thirteen languages; and I have heard from others that he had imitated all the Greek and German metres.

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.

J. S. Hart, who, like many others, has mistaken the metre of this last example for "Trochaic Tetrameter," with a surplus "syllable," after repeating the current though rather questionable assertion, that, "this measure is very uncommon," proceeds with our "Trochaic Pentameter," thus: "This species is likewise uncommon.

His plays formed the commencement of Roman translation-literature, and naturalized the Greek metres in Latium, even though they were curiosities rather than works of art.

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

He had adopted Crabbe's metre, and as far as he could compass it, his spirit also.

2. To constitute a standing jump the runner must not fall within a distance of 40 metres from the edge of the take-off or within a distance of 60 metres where the jump, as in the First Class Test, exceeds 30 metres.

I imagine Lamb to have found the metre and manner of the poem in the ballad "Gentle River, Gentle River" (translated from the Spanish "Rio Verde, Rio Verde"), which is printed in the Percy Reliques.

However, although Mr. MacCarthy's English generally follows that metre here, he does break the format in a several places.

I think poor Chatterton was an astonishing geniusbut I cannot think that Rowley foresaw metres that were invented long after he was dead, or that our language was more refined at Bristol in the reign of Henry V. than it was at Court under Henry VIII.

He handled with consummate skill the odd or complicated metres of eastern and southern lyric forms, and he was most versatile as a translator of foreign poetry, ancient and modern, occidental and oriental.

And he who brings the stars into the street And builds that shining ladder for our feet, Dwells in no mystic Abora aloof, But shares the shelter of the common roof; He learns great metres from the thunderous hum, And all his songs pulse to the human beat.

Obviously, the authorities could not place their sound-metres at the mouth of a 10,000 watt music speaker and say the decibel level were high.

To render our raft still more solid, long pieces of wood had been placed across, which projected at least three metres: on the sides, there was a kind of railing, but it was not above forty centimetres in height: it would have been easy to add some crotches to it, which would have formed a breast-work of sufficient height; but it was not done, probably because those who had the machine built, were not to be exposed upon it.

The amorous roots have taken earth, and fix And never shall PTT leave his juggling tricks, Till HY quits his metre with his pride, Till WM learns to flatter regicide, Till hypocrite-enthusiasts cease to vant And Mister WE leaves off to cant.

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.

And while national idiom was oozing through grammatical construction, national forms of verse were replacing the classical metres which, so far as syllables were concerned, had hitherto been adhered to.