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Common Meter
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When songs are sung or verse is read,It's often hard to missA rhythm that sticks in your head(The one that sounds like this). One line has four iambic feet.note An "iambic foot" is just a beat containing an unstressed syllable and then a stressed one: "de-DUM."The next has only three.And then the pattern will repeatAnd rhyme, as you can see. This meter, as its name implies,Is commoner than bread.Internal rhymes are used sometimes,And some rhymes are stilt-ED. Since common meter texts abound,Tune-swapping is a breeze.You'll see examples float around,Including these and these. Why swap the tunes? To breathe new useInto some faded verse,Or just for fun, as an excuseTo joke, or mock, or worse. In short, you'll surely have to ownThat nothing could be sweeterThan that poetic rhythm knownAs Common (Ballad) Meter. The terms "Common Meter" and "Ballad Meter" are often used interchangeably; technically, the difference is that in Ballad Meter the first and third lines don't have to rhyme. If you put two Common Meter stanzas together, you get one stanza of Common Meter Double; in hymnbooks and similar places, these terms are often abbreviated CM and CMD, respectively. Please note that "Common Meter" means a specific poetic meter (the one used in the poem above), not two songs that have a meter in common. You're thinking of a different trope, To the Tune of.... That said, singing one song to the tune of another because they're both in Common Meter is itself a popular game, as the poem above implies, so there's a whole section here of instances when Common-Meter tunes have been swapped. Also, no need to confuse this trope with Common Time. A tune can scan to Common Meter, be in Common Time, neither, or both. Examples |
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"Chains" by Patty Loveless (verses) | |
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Hoedown! The music from Irish Drinking Song |
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"She's Going Home with Me" by Travis Tritt | |
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The writer of the webcomic Everyday Heroes likes to start new chapters with a bit of allegedly humorous verse, done in Common Meter. Examples can be found here, here, here, and here. | |
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The first verse of "Lose My Mind" by Brett Eldredge. | |
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Some of the best "One Song To The Tune Of Another" rounds on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue use two songs in Common Meter. (But not all; in fact, some rounds have deliberately chosen songs with completely different meters to make it more difficult). Clue regular Barry Cryer used "Amazing Grace to the tune of Rising Sun" as part of his musical double act with Ronnie Golden for a while after singing it on the show. | |
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The Thunder Song from Ted | |
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All of the Sorting Hat's songs in the Harry Potter series. | |
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The ballad "The Raven King" in Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | |
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Most of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. | |
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"Casabianca" | |
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It has been demonstrated—probably from a safe distance—to Marines that their hymn, "From the Halls of Montezuma", can be sung to the "Gilligan's Island" theme. | |
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"Casey at the Bat" | |
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The title song in the Garfield and Friends episode "Picnic Panic", but only the verses (the chorus sung by the ants uses a different meter). | |
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Several Child Ballads, including: "Tam Lin" "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" as performed by Tim Erikson "Willie O Winsbury" |
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"No News" by Lonestar is common meter double on the verses, except for the "ooh, no news" at the end. | |
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"The Little Snicket Lad" This is especially funny given that the text explicitly notes that the song was mistakenly written to the tune of a well-known song about naval disaster. |
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"I Just Can't Wait to be King" from The Lion King (1994) | |
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"The Rains of Castamere" from A Song of Ice and Fire is metered this way, with a couple of anapaestic substitutions. | |
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"Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)" by Tom T. Hall is almost common meter double, but the last line is only 10 syllables instead of 14. | |
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"The Lumberjack Song" from Monty Python's Flying Circus, minus the chorus. Also "If I Were Not in the C.I.D.". | |
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Parts of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (the verses, but not the chorus) and "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" | |
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"The Nurse's Song" from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | |
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"Every Second" by Collin Raye is common meter double on the verses. | |
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The original Pokémon theme song. | |
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"Eating the Peach" from James and the Giant Peach | |
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