Sentence examples for the common meter from inspiring English sources

The most prevalent hymns by Watts and others were written in the common meter in 8.6.8.6: the first line is eight syllables and the second is six.

In this case, the dwelling has a 'deemed export' metering configuration, which is the common metering configuration in the UK and relevant to the forum participants presented later.

The characteristics detailed above are valid for consumers with deemed export metering configurations, which is the common metering configuration for the UK.

A great amount of Ms. Lincoln's songs are written in common meter, the meter of Scottish folk ballads and English hymns, and also Emily Dickinson's favored prosody.

Iambic pentameter is a very regular meter and is one of the most common meters in English-language poetry.

"Equality" was the only piece in a common meter, and even then its 16 beats were parsed unevenly, as five plus five plus six.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used "New Britain" with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of "Amazing Grace" to other folk songs, including titles such as "In the Pines", "Pisgah", "Primrose", and "Evan", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

"A Ride on Cottonfair," a snappy jazz waltz for acoustic piano, bass and drums, with frisky forays into common meter, uncannily evoked the Vince Guaraldi Trio.

The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter.

However, these instruments are expensive and a common meter used in measurements with a slotted line is instead a cheaper low-frequency VSWR meter.

For example, a couplet may be two lines with identical meters which rhyme or two lines held together by a common meter alone.