long metre

noun

a stanzaic form consisting of four octosyllabic lines, used esp for hymns

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Examples from the Web for long metre

Historical Examples

The music of the long-metre doxology was floating through the open windows.
Days Off
Henry Van Dyke
You might as well try to sing a long-metre hymn to "Fisher's Hornpipe," as to undertake to dance to that polka.
The Universal Reciter
Various
It was all done in a flash, and I marvel that I tell its mental processes as if they were a song sung in long-metre time.
The Price of the Prairie
Margaret Hill McCarter
Let some one with a strong voice give out the long-metre doxology, and the whole world "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow."
Around The Tea-Table
T. De Witt Talmage
It was the old tune which for many years had closed the session of the State Board, the long-metre doxology.
When Sarah Went to School
Elsie Singmaster

long metre

Examples from the Web for long metre

Historical Examples

The music of the long-metre doxology was floating through the open windows.

You might as well try to sing a long-metre hymn to "Fisher's Hornpipe," as to undertake to dance to that polka.

It was all done in a flash, and I marvel that I tell its mental processes as if they were a song sung in long-metre time.

Let some one with a strong voice give out the long-metre doxology, and the whole world "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow."

It was the old tune which for many years had closed the session of the State Board, the long-metre doxology.