long metre

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

This was kept up for three weeks, and then, one Sunday, just as the first morning hymn in long metre had been sung, and the parson, with closed eyes, had got well started in his prayer, down through the village street bounded one of those sentinels, yelling, "Mack'rel, mack'rel, millions on 'em!"

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The monotonous story of this battery boy is told in long metre in the Diary here published.

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He was in one of the country pulpits, and had just announced the second hymn, which was a long metre.

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Of the few suitable six-line long metre part songs, the charming Russian tone-poem of “St. Petersburg” by Dimitri Bortniansky is borrowed for the hymn in some collections, and with excellent effect.

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Better sing it in its original form—long metre double—to the dear old melody of “Bonny Doon.”

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