a. (UN-1 7.)
1791. Boswell, Johnson, Dec., 1784. Discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse.
1856. Masson, Ess. Biog. & Crit., 412. The art of producing, by means of articulate language, metrical or unmetrical, a fictitious concrete.
1885. Athenæum, 17 Jan., 84/2. A kind of unmetrical narrative so poetic in motive … as [etc.].
