Noun : pentameter; dactylic meter; iambic trimeter.    From Dictionary.com. 

The metre is incommensurate with every other unit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

Two are irregular in metre, one has an additional half śloka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference

It landed about a metre from the Chinese premier, but did not hit him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference

A square metre is capable of holding an average family car off the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Synthetic Gecko’ Material Paves Way for Real-Life Spiderman | Impact Lab] Reference

Fun fact about the word metre: that spelling is used only for units of measurement.    From Wordnik.com.  [favour] Reference

Completion of the version of the Psalms, in English metre, by Sternhold and Hopkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09] Reference

Every thing were so nasty, I detarmined to shift my boardin 'and lodgin' in short-metre time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters] Reference

The style is for the most part rimed stanzas in short metre, which go trippingly on the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference

The sailor sings it out like the first line of a hymn in short metre, doled out by the parish clerk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 76] Reference

But the following lines of the fragment evince, that the metre is Munsarih; hence, a clerical error must lurk somewhere in the second foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

266 In the text the usual śloka metre is employed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference

The Songs are also musical, as all poems are, in metre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blake's Contraries Game] Reference

If the metre is a little rough, you must make allowances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference

It is written in stanzas of six lines in the ms.; the metre is the second Asclepiad.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference

The metre is the eight-syllable trochaic, which is the commonest metre used by the Esthonians and Finns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country] Reference

For technical perfection in lyric metre, that is not so much to be sung as said, this ode has no precedent rival.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

But I wish you would suggest to mother the propriety of sending me another box; the last we finished in short metre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The metre is a species of the Basít which, however, admits of considerable poetical license; this being according to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

There is no reason why the tenth of the metre should be connected with the other, so as to make the name metre again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

"When I once put my hand to the work," said Tom, laughing, "down they must come, in short metre, if they're bigger than Goliah.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference

The question is as old as Aristotle, whether metre, that is, regularized rhythm, is an inalienable and necessary concomitant of poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

This metre, which is still nothing, as I understand you, is infinitely divisible into points? and the point itself is infinitely small?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference

Rousseau, though not in metre, was a poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of Geneva] Reference

The metre is not very far from the yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

The perception of these laws is a kind of metre of the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Men] Reference

Enough of each poem is given below so that the kind of metre can be determined.    From Wordnik.com.  [English: Composition and Literature] Reference

Gideon Hayle, were captain here he'd have those people off this boat in short metre. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi] Reference

They differ, in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetics. English] Reference

A metre is a linear unit of measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [phluid61 Diary Entry] Reference

You can find whole graveyards with 20 or 30 ants in a square metre.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Zombie ants' controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years] Reference

The 100 square metre farm at Paignton Zoo grows leaf vegetables for animal feed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are vertical farms the future of urban food?] Reference

He walked as lightly as a six foot man can walk until he was a metre away from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [m honest] Reference

The game finishes when a poor Murray backhand lands about a metre outside the tramline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy Murray v Lukas Lacko - as it happened] Reference

I went flying over a metre-high waterfall and Sophie came after me, but a little to the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making a romantic splash on a wild swim in Wales] Reference