Related Clues:

• Ran into first real exception in rhythmmic arrangement
• Yard is smaller than this police force, covering furthest parts of Lancashire
• Measure temperature in lake
• Got together with engineers to make unit
• Monsieur to be in France in his unit
• Metric length unit
• British unit of length
• Touched on rhythmic structure
• Oxford measure
• 39.37 inches, to a Brit
• Measure is about the right length
• Quality of poetry Verlaine took in his stride?
• Encountered engineers at some length
• Measure only about half of it
• London police get about more than the Yard