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Meanings of common metre in English

Portuguese
métrica comum

Hymn metre.

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        métrica comum
        Usage of common metre in English
        1
        The syllables are as in the common metre, but it has thrice the rhymes.
        Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
        2
        Mother Carey played the dear old common metre tune, and the voices rang out in Whittier's hymn.
        Mother Carey's Chickens
        3
        It is all written in " common metre," nearly all in lines of eight and six syllables alternately.
        Sabbath in Puritan New England
        4
        These thirty-seven tunes, all of which but one were in common metre, were bound often with "The Bay Psalm-Book."
        Sabbath in Puritan New England
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        Translations for common metre
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        métrica comum