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 Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
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 Joly, H. Bencraft
In the second place, the metre is irregular; departing very widely in places from the iambic heptameter which appears to be the dominant measure.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Verses of seven and eight feet are rare; they are called heptameter and octameter, respectively.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
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