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Definition of Metrical unit
1. Noun. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm.
Category relationships: Metrics, Prosody
Generic synonyms: Beat, Cadence, Measure, Meter, Metre
Specialized synonyms: Dactyl, Iamb, Iambus, Anapaest, Anapest, Amphibrach, Trochee, Spondee, Dibrach, Pyrrhic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metrical Unit
Literary usage of Metrical unit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and by John Franklin Genung (1900)
"I. The metrical unit: the Foot Every kind of measure must have a unit of measurement.
The unitary procedure from which poetic metre starts is the grouping ..."
2. Chapters on the Metric of the Chaucerian Tradition by Albert Harp Licklider (1910)
"The fruitful source of this confusion is the common mistake of the foot as the
ultimate metrical unit in English scansion. Granted this fundamental heresy, ..."
3. Essays of an Ex-librarian by Richard Garnett (1901)
"But Mr. Way's line is like the hexameter it represents, a metrical unit— "
Alas, 'tis one of the gods which abide on Olympus' height, That in shape of the ..."
4. A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry by V. S. Rajam (1992)
"e next line to make sense and to be noted by the prosodie term vaH-y-acai 'leading
metrical unit', most commentators label them just as an acai which has ..."
5. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"In the former function the metrical unit (the measure) is divided into parts ;
in the latter function the metrical unit is multiplied and formed into ..."
6. Plato's Republic: the Greek text by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Lewis Campbell (1894)
"... Xi)i/«T<it »if aim»: ie the time depends on the metrical unit ^, and conversely
the length of the metrical unit differs according to the time. ..."
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