Associations to the word «Stichometry»

Wiktionary

STICHOMETRY, noun. The measurement of books in terms of how many lines of text they contain.
STICHOMETRY, noun. The division of the text of a book into lines; a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky