The usual (iambic) meter of a ballad.
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Examples for "common measure "
Examples for "common measure "
1 He had preserved in no common measure the innocence of childhood.
2 This measure is, moreover, independent of the particular phenomenon taken as the common measure .
3 Any common measure for the prevention or punishment of crime.
4 Perhaps he was wily beyond the common measure of man.
5 The difficulty of reconciling the varied interests in a common measure seemed at times insurmountable.
1 The only large sample of tunes we had access to was hymns, so we started generating common -meter hymns.
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