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long measure

noun

Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.

linear measure.

Origin:
1710–20

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long measure

—n
	another name for linear measure

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