Fraser Forster, the 6-foot-7, or 2.01-meter, English goalie, was easily the star of this performance as he stretched high and low, left and right, to keep out Messi.
Lattimore had labored mightily — perhaps too mightily — in pursuit of grandeur, achieved chiefly through high diction and a studious English reconstitution of Greek meters.
A recent work of literary scholarship, The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930, by Meredith Martin, cites pedagogues such as Matthew Arnold who believed rote memorization of English poems was character-building.
When she falls in love with one of her high school teachers, Miss Aiden, she embarks on composing what she calls the Aiden Cycle, consisting of poems to Miss Aiden in "every conceivable form and also every conceivable meter in the English language".
The formal patterns of meter used in Modern English verse to create rhythm no longer dominate contemporary English poetry.
After 130 years of mystery, one of the most famous ships in the history of science may have been discovered 5 meters beneath an English marsh.
Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams are three notable poets who reject the idea that regular accentual meter is critical to English poetry.
Mrs. Pecora, a designer who has lived in Italy since 1987, and her husband, Nic Bewick, an English architect, bought the 45,000 square meters, or about 11 acres, of land in 1995.
It is mildly thrilling to watch Allen spar with his English professor (John Cullum) about rhyme and meter.
