English Explanatory Dictionary

common meter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.

Word forms

common meter common metre

Synonyms

common measure

Related words

long meter short meter
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