stichometric

Each page is divided into three columns of forty lines each, with from sixteen to eighteen letters to a line, except in the poetical books, where, owing to the stichometric division of the lines, there are but two columns to a page.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

There are no marks of punctuation, but the skilled reader was guided into the sense by stichometric, or verse-like, arrangement into coda and commata, which correspond roughly to the principal and dependent clauses of a sentence.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Another problem which presented itself was the question of retaining the irregular stichometric division in some plays and passages which are not in verse.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

Another problem which presented itself was the question of retaining the irregular stichometric division in some plays and passages which are not in verse.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801