English Explanatory Dictionary

short meter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic lines, of which the first, second, and fourth are in trimeter, and the third in tetrameter.

Word forms

short meter short metre

Synonyms

short measure

Related words

common meter long meter
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