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COMMON METER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
Synonyms:
common measure; common meter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("common meter" is a kind of...):
beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)