"Short metre stanzas consist of four Iambic lines; the third of eight, and the rest of six syllables.

"Common metre stanzas consist of four Iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables.

Mother Carey played the dear old common metre tune, and the voices rang out in Whittier's hymn.

A slope showing eight 30-metre contour lines in one centimetre works out roughly at 27°, which is a steeper slope than most people care to take straight, running over unknown country.

As to the rest, and compared with true and great poets, our Scottish Minstrel is but "a metre ballad-monger."

The metre reverts here again to the asonante form, which is kept up for the remainder of this act.

My daughter, O my daughter! "Yet, by these presents, witness all, She's welcome fifty times, And comes consigned to Hope and Love And common metre rhymes.

"Long-metre stanzas are merely the union of four iambic lines, of ten syllables each.

And metre twisting like a chain of daisies With great big splendid words a sentence long.

Very often these dimensions are less; but at all times only such vessels can pass over it as draw four metres water at the utmost: the overplus is very necessary for the pitching of the vessel, which is always very considerable upon this bar.

Assuming 30 metre contours to be equal to 100 feet contours (actually this is 98.4 feet).

We've given you tragedies, all sense defying, And singing men, in woful metre dying; This 'tis when heavy lubbers will be flying.

The line was metre gauge and we had no stock to fit it, though later the Egyptian State Railways brought down some engines and trucks from the Luxor-Assouan section, but this welcome aid was not available till after the rains had begun and had made lorry traffic temporarily impossible between our standard gauge railhead and our fighting front.