Sentence examples for the metres from inspiring English sources

The metres are quantitative, counting long and short syllables (ʿarūḍ).

I hope we will be able to complete the metres that need to be run.

The metres of the verse of ancient India were constructed on a quantitative basis.

Prichard's work consisted of moral verses in the metres of the old folk songs (penillion telyn).

Such popular poems often contain dialect forms, and the metres differ from the classical quantitative system.

As the metres ticked away he found one final surge of energy and closed ever closer.

Once, the metre was too.

The metre is often iambic pentameter.

Watch the metre.

The metre of the kalamatianos is 7/4 (3 + 2 + 2); the syrtos metre is usually 2/4.

The metre-kilogram-second unit of conductivity is mho per metre, or ampere per volt-metre.