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.

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

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.

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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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