This verse form maps stressed and unstressed syllables onto abstract entities known as metrical positions. His metrical preferences refer to vernacular ballads. Yang chanting, performed without metrical timing, is accompanied by resonant drums and low, sustained syllables. In "Consolation", sections of narrative prose alternate with metrical verse. It illustrates the sing-song, metrical, and poetic format of polytheistic prayers. Bishop Hildesley required that these Metrical Psalms were to be sung in churches. "Yang" chanting, performed without metrical timing, is accompanied by resonant drums and low, sustained syllables. FitzGerald's translation is rhyming and metrical, and rather free. It is found in poetry, especially if helpful for metrical and rhyming purposes. The two also worked at a metrical edition of the Psalms. Victor Millet prints the poem's sixth stanza as an example of the metrical form. Old Norse poetry has many metrical forms. Instead, they composed brief, highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres. The definition is not topological, but essentially metrical. The poets use a strict metrical system.