common adaptation of the common metre is the common-metre double, which as the name suggests, is the common metre repeated twice in each stanza, or 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6. Traditionally the rhyming scheme should also be double the common metre and be a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d, but it often uses the ballad metre style, resulting in x-a-x-a-x-b-x-b. Examples of this variant are "America the Beautiful" and "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear". Likewise related is the common particular metre, 8.8.6.8.8.6., as in the tune Magdalen College, composed in 1774 by William Hayes, which has been used with the hymn "We Sing of God, the Mighty Source", by Christopher Smart. Examples Common metre is often used in hymns, like this one by John Newton. William Wordsworth's "Lucy Poems" are also in common metre. Many of the poems of Emily Dickinson use ballad metre. Another American poem in ballad metre is Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat": A modern example of ballad metre is the theme song to Gilligan's Island, infamously making it possible to sing any other ballad to that tune. The first two lines actually contain anapaests in place of iambs. This is an example of a ballad metre which is metrically less strict than common metre. Another example is the folk song "House of the Rising Sun". "Gascoigns Good Night", by George Gascoigne, employs fourteeners. "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates employs the common metre double, using a standard CM rhyme scheme for the first iteration, and a ballad metre scheme for the second. Likewise "Advance Australia Fair" by Peter Dodds McCormick, Australia's national anthem: The Pokémon Theme song is also in common meter and people have produced videos with the Pokémon Theme instrumentals with the words of Emily Dickinson poems. See also Foot (prosody) Hymn tune Hymnology Hymns and hymn tunes Long metre Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Short metre References Poetic rhythm