expression vs metre

expression

noun
  • The tone of voice or sound in music. 

  • A specific blend of whisky. 

  • A colloquialism or idiom. 

  • The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. 

  • An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols. 

  • The process of translating a gene into a protein. 

  • A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion. 

  • (manufacturing) The act of pressing or squeezing out. 

  • A particular way of phrasing an idea. 

  • A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value. 

  • emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader 

metre

noun
  • The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. 

  • The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches. 

verb
  • To put into metrical form. 

How often have the words expression and metre occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )