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Definition of Common meter
1. Noun. The usual (iambic) meter of a ballad.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Meter
Literary usage of Common meter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psalms and Hymns, for Christian Use and Worship by General Association of Connecticut (1860)
"common meter. (CM) The stanza consists of four lines, of which the first and third
... This is called common meter, as the earliest and most frequent in the ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"In the following rhyme, for example, the first and third lines are a syllable
short for the common meter pattern. Sing a song o' six pence, A pocket full of ..."
3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"In common-meter tunes there are eight pulses in the first and third phrases and
... In a triple-rhythm common-meter tune the second line would require to be ..."
4. The Readable Dictionary: Or, Topical and Synonymic Lexicon: Containing by John Williams (1860)
"A common meter stanza consists of four lines of iambic feet, the first and third
... common meter. When all thy mercies, 0, my God, My rising soul surveys, ..."
5. The Metric System: Hearings Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights and by United States Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, United States 58th Congress, 2d session, 1903-1904. House. [from old catalog] (1906)
"It was supposed that all quadrants of the earth were of the same length, so the
meter would be common meter; but from surveys and estimates made during the ..."
6. Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both by Virginia Waddy (1889)
"The most common of the psalm and hymn stanzas are the Long, the Short, and the
common meter. These three agree in this: they are all in iambic meter, ..."
7. Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: A Guide to Correct Writing by Thomas Edie Hill (1879)
"common meter. Iambic verse of seven feet, divided into two lines, the first
containing four, and the latter three feet, makes what is known as common meter ..."
8. The Music and Hymnody of the Methodist Hymnal by Carl Fowler Price (1911)
"Of common meter the first and third lines are of eight syllables each, as in long
meter, but the second and fourth are of only six syllables. ..."
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