| 1. | I hear the metrical shuffling of their feet. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | His most famous work is the metrical translation of the _Iliad. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 3. | Beowulf, prose translations by Tinker, Hall, Earle, Morris and Wyatt metrical versions by Garnett, J.L. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 4. | In order to understand Stoicism, or Port Royal, or Puritanism, one should remember the constraint under which every language has attained to strength and freedom--the metrical constraint, the tyranny of rhyme and rhythm. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 5. | An accurate line-for-line translation, using alliteration occasionally, and sometimes assuming a metrical cadence. - from Beowulf by |
| 6. | The feminine and dactylic rhymes, which have been for the most part omitted by all metrical translators except Mr. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 7. | There are metrical or verse romances of French and Celtic and English heroes, like Roland, Arthur and Tristram, and Bevis of Hampton. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | I only know that there are some three principles of rhythm out of which metrical systems are framed, just as in sounds there are four notes i.e. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 9. | The name "romance" was given at first to any story in one of the Romance languages, like the French metrical romances, which we have considered. - from English Literature by William J. Long |