| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | linear measure. |
| linear measure n. In both senses also called long measure.
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| long measure n.
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| long meter n. A quatrain in iambic tetrameter, rhyming in the second and fourth lines and often in the first and third. Also called long measure. |