long measure
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.
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How to use long measure in a sentence
It was a long measure of more than fifty sections, carefully planned and skillfully drawn.
History of the United States | Charles A. Beard and Mary R. BeardOur weights are even more distracting than our long measure.
Carpentry and Woodwork | Edwin W. FosterThat rest which he would not give himself when his sensations prompted he has now to take in long measure.
The Five Great Philosophies of Life | William de Witt HydeThat rest which he would not give himself when his sensations prompted, he has now to take in long measure.
The Data of Ethics | Herbert SpencerRichardson and Smollett and Fielding gave them a plenty of long-measure novels.
The Spirit of America | Henry Van Dyke
British Dictionary definitions for long measure
another name for linear measure
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