common measure

Related to common measure: ballad metre

common measure

A ballad stanza form in iambic meter, often rhyming in alternating pairs, that is typical of many church hymns. Also called common meter, hymnal stanza.

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common measure

1. (Music, other) another term for common time

2. (Poetry) the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b

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com′mon meas′ure

a ballad stanza of four iambic lines and strict rhymes, often used in hymns, rhyming abcb or abab.

Also called com′mon me′ter.

[1710–20]

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Noun	1.	common measure - a time signature indicating four beats to the bar common time, four-four time, quadruple time musical time - (music) the beat of musical rhythm
	2.	common measure - an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly common divisor, common factor divisor, factor - one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?" greatest common divisor, greatest common factor, highest common factor - the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers
	3.	common measure - the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad common meter cadence, metre, meter, measure, beat - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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In pursuance of this resolve, he took up his residence in the Puritan town as Roger Chillingworth, without other introduction than the learning and intelligence of which he possessed more than a common measure. As his studies, at a previous period of his life, had made him extensively acquainted with the medical science of the day, it was as a physician that he presented himself and as such was cordially received.

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Six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four double: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.

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All the dwellers in Starkfield, as in more notable communities, had had troubles enough of their own to make them comparatively indifferent to those of their neighbours; and though all conceded that Ethan Frome's had been beyond the common measure, no one gave me an explanation of the look in his face which, as I persisted in thinking, neither poverty nor physical suffering could have put there.

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