short metre

British  

noun

1. a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six

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Example Sentences

He said, No, he could have a large force of infantry to help him there, in very short metre, if there was any sudden emergency.

From The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Whitman, Walt

But they were conducted by means of that marvel of marvels, the telegraph,—the chief of whose marvels is that it compels even a long- winded generation like ours to speak in very short metre.

From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Hale, Edward Everett

"No, he didn't," broke in Adams, "or he would have stopped it short metre; but I guess be saw you pitching into the pump which you did uncommonly strong—and of course be smelt mischief directly."

From The Story of a Bad Boy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

But I wish you would suggest to mother the propriety of sending me another box; the last we finished in short metre.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

I'll touch you off now in short metre.

From Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants by Lett, William Pittman