LONG METRE

also called long measure, abbreviation L.M. in poetry, a quatrain in iambic 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: 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?