common meter

English

Alternative forms

  • common metre

Noun

common meter (uncountable)

  1. (hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
    The hymn “Amazing Grace” is in common meter.
    • 2008 January 13, Ben Ratliff, “Easy Slogans, Twinkly Funk and One Busy String”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      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.

Synonyms

  • common measure

See also

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