These poems contain clever rhyme-schemes, varied use of refrain-lines or words, and different metric patterns.

The central movement uses pizzicato in eccentric metric patterns and silences placed in unexpected places.

Purcell readily breaks metric patterns to make his dramatic points.

The colors are acid-bright, the metric patterns unpredictable, the soulfulness modest and restrained.

As the music builds in intensity, the driving metric patterns become four-square and predictable.

"If theRite of Spring you've ever heard, you know it's from metric patterns liberated."

The rhythmic and metric patterns, all with Mexican roots, undergo subtle shifts in this engaging piece.

There is no fixed metre or metric pattern in Tehillim.

The repetitive rhythms call the audience to attention, but they also upset its expectations with their smooth but sudden transitions into different metric patterns.

Most of this music followed the same basic metric pattern, which in modern notation would be written as a swift 6/4 (or 6/8) meter.