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-->--{{xkcd}}, "[[http://xkcd.com/788/ The Carriage]]"
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It's used in a number of well-known songs and poems, and as a result, you can swap the lyrics and tunes around, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZqR_M20Y48 often to amusing effect]]. Some of the best One Song To The Tune Of Another rounds on ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' have done this (others have deliberately chosen songs with completely different meters to make it more difficult).
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It's used in a number of well-known songs and poems, and as a result, you can swap the lyrics and tunes around, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZqR_M20Y48 often to amusing effect]]. Some of the best One Song To The Tune Of Another rounds on ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' have done this (others have deliberately chosen songs with completely different meters to make it more difficult).
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* Most of ''{{The Rime of the Ancient Mariner}}''.
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* Most of ''{{The Rime of the Ancient Mariner}}''.''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''.
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* The LegendofZelda poem on the CosmicKeystone page of this very wiki.
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* The LegendofZelda ''TheLegendOfZelda'' poem on the CosmicKeystone page of this very wiki.
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*** That's not always a problem
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The Pokémon anime\'s English theme does not belong on this page.
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* [[{{Pokemon}} I wanna be the very best / like no one ever was. / To catch them is my real test / To train them is my cause]]
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It's used in a number of well-known songs and poems, and as a result, you can swap the lyrics and tunes around, often to amusing effect. Some of the best One Song To The Tune Of Another rounds on ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' have done this (others have deliberately chosen songs with completely different meters to make it more difficult).
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It's used in a number of well-known songs and poems, and as a result, you can swap the lyrics and tunes around, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZqR_M20Y48 often to amusing effect.effect]]. Some of the best One Song To The Tune Of Another rounds on ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' have done this (others have deliberately chosen songs with completely different meters to make it more difficult).
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* The verses of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXZR8zdVVD4 "Sing For Me"]] by The Fiery Furnaces
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** It has been demonstrated to Marines that their hymn, "From the Halls of Montezuma", can be sung to the "GilligansIsland" theme.
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** It has been demonstrated to demonstrated—probably from a safe distance—to Marines that their hymn, "From the Halls of Montezuma", can be sung to the "GilligansIsland" theme.
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The Common Meter is a poetic rhythm [[CaptainObvious which is, naturally, very common]]. (For the metrically inclined, it consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter - although, and especially where hymns are concerned, "iambic" is not an absolute requirement) In layperson's terms, it consists of alternating lines of eight and six syllables, or 8.6.8.6. Abbreviated CM.
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The Common Meter is a poetic rhythm [[CaptainObvious which is, naturally, very common]]. (For the metrically inclined, it consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter - although, and especially where hymns are concerned, "iambic" is not an absolute requirement) In layperson's terms, it consists of alternating lines of eight and six syllables, or 8.6.8.6. Abbreviated CM.
CM. There is also Common Meter Double (CMD), which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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** Gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama recorded a version of "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" set to this tune. Surprisingly, ''it works!''
*** ''Works'' is a subjective term. It can be sung that way, yes, but as Amazing Grace is a song of hope and joy, and House of the Rising Sun is a song of dejection and failure (and the music reflects this).....
*** ''Works'' is a subjective term. It can be sung that way, yes, but as Amazing Grace is a song of hope and joy, and House of the Rising Sun is a song of dejection and failure (and the music reflects this).....
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** Gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama recorded a version of "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" set to this tune. Surprisingly, ''it works!''
*** ''Works'' is a subjective term.It can be sung that way, yes, works but as Amazing Grace is a song of hope and joy, and House of some may find the Rising Sun is a song of dejection and failure (and the music reflects this).....MoodDissonance confusing.
*** ''Works'' is a subjective term.
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Those two carols are not in different meters, and Piano Man is not in anything like CM.
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*** Must have been awkward, because they are in different meters, neither of which is CM.
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*** Must have been awkward, because they are in different meters, Technically, though, neither of which them is in CM.
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* "Piano Man", by BillyJoel.
** with a great many liberties taken in the poetry.
** with a great many liberties taken in the poetry.
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* "[[RobertAHeinlein The Green Hills of Earth]]"
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* "[[RobertAHeinlein The Green Hills of Earth]]"RobertAHeinlein's ''TheGreenHillsOfEarth''
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*** "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" is another hymn that has been sung to this tune, and it is similarly jarring when this is done.
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** It Came Upon a Midnight Clear also works. Writers of Christmas song lyrics seem to love this.
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* [[{{Pokemon}} I wanna be the very best / like no one ever was. / To catch them is my real test / To train them is my cause]]
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The Common Meter is a poetic rhythm [[CaptainObvious which is, naturally, very common]]. (For the metrically inclined, it consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter - although, and especially where hymns are concern, "iambic" is not an absolute requirement) In layperson's terms, it consists of alternating lines of eight and six syllables, or 8.6.8.6. Abbreviated CM.
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The Common Meter is a poetic rhythm [[CaptainObvious which is, naturally, very common]]. (For the metrically inclined, it consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter - although, and especially where hymns are concern, concerned, "iambic" is not an absolute requirement) In layperson's terms, it consists of alternating lines of eight and six syllables, or 8.6.8.6. Abbreviated CM.
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** with a great many liberties taken in the poetry.
* "Joy to the World" and many of Isaac Watts other psalm [[{{Woolseyism}} "translations"]].
* "Joy to the World" and many of Isaac Watts other psalm [[{{Woolseyism}} "translations"]].
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The Common Meter is a poetic rhythm [[CaptainObvious which is, naturally, very common]]. (For the metrically inclined, it consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.) In layperson's terms, it consists of alternating lines of eight and six syllables, or 8.6.8.6. Abbreviated CM.
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The Common Meter is a poetic rhythm [[CaptainObvious which is, naturally, very common]]. (For the metrically inclined, it consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.) trimeter - although, and especially where hymns are concern, "iambic" is not an absolute requirement) In layperson's terms, it consists of alternating lines of eight and six syllables, or 8.6.8.6. Abbreviated CM.
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* OlderThanSteam example: The Scottish Psalter of 1650. This was the point of it; since hymns were forbidden in the Calvinist tradition held by the Prebyterian Church (the Church of Scotland, at the time), only scriptural references and paraphrases could be sung. The natural target was therefore the Psalms, already intended as congregational songs; however, the songs were written originally in anceint Hebrew and were translated (roughly) into non-metrical English in the King James Bible of 1610 (as well as a few other editions of the 16th century) which worked fine for the English, who could sing their psalms in Anglican Chant or Plainchant - but the practice of chanting was consider too much of a Catholic holdover by the Scots. While the Scottish Psalter didn't ''invent'' Common Metre, it is the reason that it's consider "Common" - almost every one of the 150 psalms (including Psalm 119 in 22 separate parts) is written in Common Metre. Many psalms have two versions, one in Common Metre and one in another; Psalm 136 has two versions, and neither is in Common Metre - it is the ''only'' exception in the entire 1650 Scottish Psalter. It's [[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/scotpsalter.psalter.html here]]. Poor scansion and PainfulRhyme are the natural result in many cases. The Psalter also had a wide variety of Common Metre tunes which could be used with any of the psalms; standard publishing practice for this and other metrical psalters, even today, is to divide the book in half horizontally, essentially binding two separate books together, the upper with music and the lower with the words. (it kind of goes without saying, but this trope is OlderThanPrint; however, before this, Common Metre wasn't all that common!)
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald does not fit the trope. The closest meter the poetry has is somewhere in the field of 11.10.11.10
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* ''The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald''. For bonus points, this means that the ''Gilligan's Island'' theme can be sung to this tune.
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* The LegendofZelda poem on the CosmicKeystone page of this very wiki.
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Greensleeves is Long Meter (8.8.8.8) not Common Meter. Jabberwocky, not Emily Dickinson.
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* "Greensleeves". You know, "What Child Is This?".
** You mean [[{{Blackadder}} "Hot Sex Madrigal (In the Middle of My Tights)"]]?
** You mean [[{{Blackadder}} "Hot Sex Madrigal (In the Middle of My Tights)"]]?
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-->I learned from ''{{Achewood}}'' that since [[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/stop.html this poem]] is in ballad meter, it can be sung to the tune of ''GilligansIsland''. Since then, [[EarWorm try as I might]], I haven't ONCE been able to read it normally. \\
--{{xkcd}}, "[[http://xkcd.com/788/ The Carriage]]"
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* The well-known chorus from the fourth movement of [[LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]'s Ninth: "Freude, schöne Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium..."
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* The well-known chorus from the fourth movement of [[LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]'s Ninth: "Freude, schöne Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium..."
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-->I learned from ''{{Achewood}}'' that since this poem [Because I could not stop for Death] is in ballad meter, it can be sung to the tune of ''GilligansIsland''. Since then, [[EarWorm try as I might]], I haven't ONCE been able to read it normally. \\
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-->I learned from ''{{Achewood}}'' that since [[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/stop.html this poem [Because I could not stop for Death] poem]] is in ballad meter, it can be sung to the tune of ''GilligansIsland''. Since then, [[EarWorm try as I might]], I haven't ONCE been able to read it normally. \\
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-->''Here's another song\\
with the four oldest chords in history...''
-->-- '''[=braveSaintSaturn=]''', "Enamel"
with the four oldest chords in history...''
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-->-- '''[=braveSaintSaturn=]''', "Enamel"
--{{xkcd}}, "[[http://xkcd.com/788/ The Carriage]]"
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** Gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama recorded a version of "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" set to this tune. Surprisingly, ''it works!''
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** Gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama recorded a version of "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" set to this tune. Surprisingly, ''it works!''works!''
*** ''Works'' is a subjective term. It can be sung that way, yes, but as Amazing Grace is a song of hope and joy, and House of the Rising Sun is a song of dejection and failure (and the music reflects this).....
*** ''Works'' is a subjective term. It can be sung that way, yes, but as Amazing Grace is a song of hope and joy, and House of the Rising Sun is a song of dejection and failure (and the music reflects this).....
