long metre

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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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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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.

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

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

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