(chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net ...
In addition to the regular meter, there are a few other things to note about this chilly little poem. It rhymes, like lots of songs, and the rhyme scheme for each stanza is this: ABABCCDEF, where the letter stands for that line's end rhyme. This means the first four lines of each...