Meaning of antimeter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.
   obsolete
2. A contrasting rhythm or meter that deliberately interrupts or clashes with the naturally expected metrical pattern.

Examples

“A description of Mr. Garrard's Antimeter, or Reflecting Circle, may be seen in his pamphlet, published in 1785; and in the article Antimeter, by the Author of this work”

“Blake and Dickinson looked in the same place for an anti-meter (Hollander's term) ; Blake's rough fourteeners employ a one-line adaptation of the meter Dickinson favored, the ballad or hymn stanza.”

“The conflict between meter and antimeter is a critical aspect of the textural rhythm, and takes on significance as a rhetorical code that lends affective immediacy to the psychological drama of the recording.”

“Later, Shemtov speaks of "antimeter”. Here she could speak of “antistanza”, with one difference. Emily Dickinson does not indicate what metre she avoids, whereas Apollinaire clearly indicates what stanza form he does not choose. But, unlike the “antimeter", this has no relevance to a feminist agenda.”

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