History
Poets have utilized long metre for more than a thousand years: the hymn "Te lucis ante terminum'" is known from a hymnary of the eighth or early ninth century, and might be even older than that hymnary. The same metre is also found in more recent works: Psalm 100, "All People That on Earth Do Dwell", is sometimes sung to an arrangement of the calypso tune used in "Jamaica Farewell", and the song "Hernando's Hideaway" from The Pajama Game is also largely in long metre.
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