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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
Rhymes with COMMON MEASURE
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