Meaning Common measure
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Common measure – a ballad stanza generally rhyming in alternating pairs
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Common measureA quatrain that rhymes ABAB and alternates four-stress and three-stress iambic lines. It is the meter of the hymn and the ballad. Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems are written in common measure, includi [..]
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Common measureAlso called common meter, common measure consists of closed poetic quatrains rhyming ABAB or ABCB, in which the lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) alternate with lines of iambic trimeter (si [..]
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