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单词 metrists
释义

metre2 or (US) meter /mēˈtər/

noun
  1. The regulated succession of groups of syllables (long and short, stressed and unstressed) in which poetry is usually written
  2. Verse, or poetry generally
  3. A scheme of versification, the character of a stanza as consisting of a given number of lines composed of feet of a given number, arrangement, and kind
  4. Musical time
transitive verb and intransitive verb

To versify

ORIGIN: OE mēter and OFr metre, both from L metrum, from Gr metron measurement, metre; and partly directly

metred /mēˈtərd/ adjective

Rhythmical

metric /metˈrik/ or metˈrical adjective

  1. Relating to metre
  2. In metre
  3. Consisting of verses

metˈrically adverb

metrician /me-trishˈən/ noun

A metricist

metˈricist /-sist/ noun

  1. A person skilled in metres
  2. Someone who writes in metre

metˈricize or metˈricise /-sīz/ transitive verb

To analyse the metre of

metˈrics singular noun

The art or science of versification (also metˈric)

metrificāˈtion noun

  1. Metrical structure
  2. The act of writing verse

metˈrifier noun

A versifier

metˈrist noun

  1. A person skilled in the use of metre
  2. A person who studies metre

metromāˈnia noun

A mania for writing verse

common metre

A quatrain in eights and sixes, of four and of three iambic feet alternately (also service metre, from its use in the metrical psalms, etc, and ballad metre, from its use in old ballads)

long metre

An octosyllabic quatrain, the four lines with four feet each

short metre

The quatrain in sixes, with the third line octosyllabic
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