heptameter
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Origin of heptameter
1895–1900; < Medieval Latin heptametrum < Greek heptámetron a verse of seven feet. See hepta-, meter 2
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Librettist Jeremy Gury preserved the 13 stanzas of iambic heptameter intact, but also worked up a good deal of added story business besides two more stanzas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lumsden does not vary his measure, but preserves the iambic heptameter throughout.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
The heptameter is usually divided into a tetrameter and a trimeter; the octameter, into two tetrameters.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
Let the three words 'red plum blossom,'" she then suggested, "be used for rhymes; and let each person compose an heptameter stanza.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
With these words, she walked up to the book-case, and, extracting a volume, she opened it, at random, at some verses which turned out to be a heptameter stanza.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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