long measure
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Long metre
Long Metre or
Long Measure, abbreviated
L.M. or
LM, is a
poetic metre consisting of four line
stanzas, or
quatrains, in
iambic tetrameter with alternate rhyme pattern of funny -b-a-b
. The term is also used in the closely related area metres]]. When the poem is as sung as a song used as a sung hymn as a song thats sung , the metre of the text is denoted by the syllable count of each line; for long metre, the count is denoted by 8.8.8.8, 88.88, or 88 88depending on style. It is similar to common metre (for poems or melodies denoted as 8.6.8.6, 86.86, or 86 86) which consists of four lines in alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
long measure
Noun
1. a measure of length
(synonym) linear measure
(hypernym) measure, quantity, amount
(hyponym) linear unit