Entertainment / Music / Hymn: Song in praise of God: often involves congregational participation.
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Poulters Measure: Couplets in which a twelve-syllable line rhymes with a fourteen-syllable line. Chapman uses this form in his translation of homer. Hymn writers split the couplet into a quatrain (6 6 8 6), as did ball MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Accentual Verse: Lines whose rhythm arises from its stressed syllables rather than from the number of its syllables, or from the length of time devoted to their sounding. Old english poems such as beowulf and caedmon' MORE
Entertainment / Music / Requiem: A dirge, hymn, or musical service for the repose of the dead. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Chorale: Baroque congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Fuging Tone: Polyphonic, imitative setting of a hymn or psalm, popular in Great Britain and the United States from the eighteenth century. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Common Measure: Also called common meter, common measure consists of closed poetic quatrains rhyming ABAB or ABCB, in which the lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) alternate with lines of iambic trimeter (si MORE