1) Art of writing verse 2) Part of prosody 3) Performance measures 4) Poetics 5) Prosody 6) Science of poetic rhythm 7) Standards of assessment 8) Standards of measurement 9) Verse study 10) Yardsticks, ironically Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/metrics
[networking] Metrics are used to determine whether one particular route should be chosen over another. The routing table stores possible routes, while link-state or topological databases may store all other information as well. For example, Routing Information Protocol uses hopcount (number of hops) to determine the best possible route. The... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrics_(networking)