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common meter en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
   • The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter. 2008 January 13, Ben Ratliff, “Easy Slogans, Twinkly Funk and One Busy String”, in New York Times:
   • The hymn “Amazing Grace” is in common meter.

Forms

Relateds

short meter · long meter

Synonyms

common measure