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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Late Latin
Origin: metricus, from Greek, from metron; -METER

metrical

 adjective
     
Related topics: Literature
met‧ri‧cal technical
AL written in the form of poetry, with a pattern of strong and weak beats
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