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Naming a town "Haag" would just be odd, as it needs an article (compare a town named "Hedge" in English speaking countries) and the single syllable is metrically awkward as well.

Place Names with Definite Articles 2009

Her readings of such seldom-heard jewels as "His Eyes, Her Eyes," "In Another World" and the metrically intricate "I Was Born in Love with You" make the album a worthy addition to the short list of first-class American stylists including Sarah Vaughan and Jack Jones , who have collaborated with Mr. Legrand through the years.

An All-Singing (and Swinging) Week Will Friedwald 2011

Naming a town "Haag" would just be odd, as it needs an article (compare a town named "Hedge" in English speaking countries) and the single syllable is metrically awkward as well.

Place Names with Definite Articles » E-Mail 2009

And fais angle-of-ascent gauge and fuel cutoff device are calibrated metrically.

Golden State 2010

It is all immediated by Edgar's fiction for his blind father, "Hark, do you hear the sea"? — a solicitation that falters metrically when Gloucester completes the line "No, truly" (4.6.4), a foot short and in a weak rhyme with sea.

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

Whose idea — that such words as these are better spoken, better understood, better appreciated, when rendered metrically in forced marches with the congregation?

Leap Year -- Day John 2008

As for the metrical arrangement (which is "arbitrarily produced by the imagination"), it seeks as rhythmical sound to prolong "the duration of the effect" of impressions received both from within and without as they modify each other as a way of also prolonging "a consciousness of the cause," sensation as impressions becoming, both as metaphors and linguistic sounds metrically arranged, their conversion into thought as the poet's consciousness of them.

Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

A primer of this recreation, playing on poetic infrastructure, is Southey's jeu d'esprit, "The Cataract of Lodore," a poem shaped, phonically and metrically, into a cascade of sounds that not only coincide with lexical sense but drive it as a primary expressive force:

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

Posts like this--literate, funny, and verging on metrically correct--are why I don't just read Snob; I also read the commenters!

Über-Conformity: Death Before Individuality BikeSnobNYC 2010

Another key question is how success is measured – tangibly, metrically, from a distance, not emotionally.

The X Prizes for news (and media) « BuzzMachine 2009