Metrical

Synonyms for metrical:

Sense 1

o'er, poet laureate, poesy, bard, poet, prosody, rhyme, alliteration, poetry, metre, cadenced, scansion, conceit, iambic pentameter.

Sense 2

metaphysical, meter.

Sense 4

scan.

poetical

poetic.

Other synonyms and related words:

cadenced, poetry, prosody, mensural, poetic, metre, measured, careful, metaphysical, cadent, alliteration, mensurable, deliberate, meter, calculated, bard, conceit.

cadenced (adjective)

cadent, metric.

rhythmical (adjective)

measured, rhythmic, cadenced.

Sense 1 (noun)

bard, iambic pentameter, metre, metaphysical, cadenced, alliteration, conceit, meter.

metrical (noun)

metric, measured, rhythmical, rhythmic.

Usage examples for metrical:

• Yet it is to be observed that after Byron and Scott the metrical romance, that most ancient form of tale- telling, fell rapidly into disuse. - "Studies in Literature and History", Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall.
• The metrical are perfectly distinct from the prosaic properties of verse. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.
• One of them is rather outrageous, and not altogether metrical. - "Phaedrus", Plato.