long metre

▪ poetry

also called  long measure,  abbreviation  L.M. 

      in poetry, a quatrain in iambic tetrameter (tetrameter) with the second and fourth lines rhyming and often the first and third lines rhyming. An example is the following stanza from the poem “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” by Isaac Watts (Watts, Isaac):

See, from his head, his hands, his feet,

Sorrow and love flow mingled down;

Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,

Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

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