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- What is long meter in hymns?
- What is the longest hymn?
- What is a meter hymn?
- What is a short meter in hymns?
What is long meter in hymns?
Long Metre or Long Measure, abbreviated as L.M. or LM, is a poetic metre consisting of four line stanzas, or quatrains, in iambic tetrameter with alternate rhyme pattern a-b-a-b. The term is also used in the closely related area of hymn metres.
What is the longest hymn?
In 1823 Dionysios Solomos, drawing inspiration from the Greek War of Independence, composed the poem the Hymn to Liberty consisting of 158 verses making it the longest national anthem in the world by lyrics.
What is a meter hymn?
A hymn metre (Am. meter) indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza of a hymn. This provides a means of marrying the hymn's text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing.
What is a short meter in hymns?
Short metre, also called short measure, abbreviation S.M., a quatrain of which the first, second, and fourth lines are in iambic trimeter and the third is in iambic tetrameter. Short metre may also refer to a poulter's measure (alternating lines of 12 and 14 syllables) written as a quatrain.
