common meter

noun

common meter

noun

1

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

The hymn “Amazing Grace” is in common meter.
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:

Synonyms: common measure
Related terms: long meter, short meter

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