English Explanatory Dictionary

long meter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic tetrameter, usually having rhyme in the second and fourth lines.

Word forms

long meter long metre

Synonyms

long measure

Related words

common meter short meter

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