Quotes About Meter

All poems live or die in the concerted arrangement of syllables into patterns that are alternatively broken or reinforced. Wyatt taught me that." —James Longenbach

Ga daar de hoek om,' commandeerde Morgan Drummond. 'Snij af door het park. En waag het niet om die verrekte meter nog verder op te laten lopen.' ... Kady greep naar haar heuptasje. 'Oom Edward, u mag wel even met mijn mobieltje bellen dat we te laat komen.' 'Maar we komen niet te laten,' zei Morgan en wendde zich tot de chauffeur. 'Of wel soms?

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

44. In meter singing is joined, and therefore there must be more care of the speech and tone, then in prose. 45. But the melody of singing is ordained for a certain spiritual delight, whereby the mind is detained in the meditation of the thing that is sung.

Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"

In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

On dividing a sher into six parts starting from the beginning to end, all the parts are known as ---sadar, hashu, urooz, ibtada, hashu and zarab.

You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary, Let not our naive labours have been in vain!

And then it begins The search For the fifth head of Brahma His first have us words His second gave us Grammar His third gave us meter His fourth gave us Melody The last one is missing The fifth The head with meaning

The meter itself demands a special vocabulary, for many combinations of long and short syllables that are common in the spoken language cannot be admitted to the line Ã¢â'¬â€any word with three consecutive short syllables, for example, any word with one short syllable between two longs. This difficulty was met by choosing freely among the many variations of pronunciation and prosody afforded by Greek dialectal differences; the epic language is a mixture of dialects." - Bernard Knox

Face it. The pathology meter was twitching.

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

The power meter is a powerful tool for training, one that can potentially make you fitter and faster than any other piece of equipment you could get for your bike.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

ACATALECTIC  (ACATALE'CTIC)   n.s.[  Gr.]A verse which has the compleat number of syllables, without defect or superfluity.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.