Common

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound meter

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound meter

Common meter is a specific type of meter that is often used in lyric poetry. ... The hymn "Amazing Grace" is an example of common meter: "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound / That saved a wretch like me."

  1. What is the meter of Amazing Grace?
  2. What is common meter in hymns?
  3. What is the rhyme scheme of Amazing Grace?
  4. What songs use common meter?

What is the meter of Amazing Grace?

Amazing Grace (Variations on an Old American Hymn Tune) uses a mirror form. Verse four serves as the center. It distinguishes itself from the rest of the music because of the triple meter and the homophonic texture.

What is common meter in hymns?

Common metre or common measure—abbreviated as C. M. or CM—is a poetic metre consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

What is the rhyme scheme of Amazing Grace?

The two tetrameter lines rhyme, as do the two trimeter lines, which gives a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b. Common metert has historically been used for ballads such as Tam Lin, and hymns such as Amazing Grace and the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem.

What songs use common meter?

Examples of Common Meter include:

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