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common measure

noun

Definition of COMMON MEASURE

:  a meter consisting chiefly of iambic lines of 7 accents each arranged in rhymed pairs usually printed in 4-line stanzas —called also common meter
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First Known Use of COMMON MEASURE

1922

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