| 单词 | service metre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasservice metre service metre n. Prosody (now rare) an iambic stanza of four lines containing 8 and 6 syllables alternately; = common metre n. at common adj. and adv. Compounds 2; (also) seven iambic feet forming a line. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > fourteen syllables tessaradecasyllabon?c1622 service metre1841 fourteener1884 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > common metre common metre1664 service metre1841 running rhythma1887 1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. v. 382 Poulterer's Measure.—Alexandrines and Service Measures alternately... It will be seen that a couplet of Ballad Metre is equivalent to a line of Service Metre. 1886 J. M. D. Meiklejohn Eng. Lang. 182 Iambic Tetrameter with Iambic Trimeter in alternate lines—the second and fourth rhyming—is called Ballad Metre. When used, as it often is, in hymns, it is called Service Metre. 1949 Philol. Q. 28 161 Unlike the translations of 1648, which were all in the common service metre, Milton's psalm translations in August of 1653 contain a great variety of rime and metrical patterns. < as lemmas |
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