Definition of "metrically" [met•ric•al•ly]

• In a metrical manner. (adverb)

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• "Naming a town "Haag" would just be odd, as it needs an article (compare a town named "Hedge" in English speaking countries) and the single syllable is metrically awkward as well."
• "Her readings of such seldom-heard jewels as "His Eyes, Her Eyes," "In Another World" and the metrically intricate "I Was Born in Love with You" make the album a worthy addition to the short list of first-class American stylists including Sarah Vaughan and Jack Jones , who have collaborated with Mr. Legrand through the years."
• "As for the metrical arrangement (which is "arbitrarily produced by the imagination"), it seeks as rhythmical sound to prolong "the duration of the effect" of impressions received both from within and without as they modify each other as a way of also prolonging "a consciousness of the cause," sensation as impressions becoming, both as metaphors and linguistic sounds metrically arranged, their conversion into thought as the poet's consciousness of them."