If metrical visibility is a notion of metrical theory, then only (37a) and (37c) are intuitively accessible, in the sense that if there is phonological material it is
metrically visible.
Though the denser line also depends on ostinato motives repeated at different pitch levels, the
metrically stressed balungan pitches still line up.
The parallel phenomenon of the
metrically demoted syllable can also be accounted for by using Bolinger's categories.
Examples from openings, however, cannot be decisive, because openings are not
metrically regular enough to produce conclusive evidence and because any lengthening will automatically yield a better structure.
Metrically, in these two lines, the prevalent pattern would ordinarily be said to be "anapaestic" (where two unstressed syllables are followed by a beat).
This indicates that a transition from
metrically tetragonal to
metrically cubic occurs in the vicinity of this temperature.
In languages like German and Russian, where a great number of verse translations are available, the translator faces the task of providing
metrically identical or equivalent (equimetrical) translations.
(For the
metrically challenged, that means it will bring about 8 gallons of water to a boil using just about 2.5 pounds of firewood.)
The editors selected Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 46 as the base-text for their edition of the Extra Miracles because it is more
metrically and orthographically regular than the other manuscripts.
But Owen Temple, a Liberal Democrat county councillor who issued a legal challenge to the council over its decision to build on Belle Vue, said: "For younger and
metrically literate readers, pouring a quart into a pint pot is the old way to describe trying to fit a litre of water into a half litre bottle.
The same is true for literature, which subsumes texts written to be read alone like most novels from the 20th century; texts meant to be performed, like songs and plays; texts which are strictly
metrically organized; and texts which have no metrical organisation at all, etc.
Through this, the student can perceive where the structural tones are placed
metrically, as well as the particular manner in which each is embellished.
