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Dr Douglas Hyde gives it as his opinion that the exceedingly numerous metres known in Middle Irish had become restricted to a couple of dozen, and these nearly all heptasyllabic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

The commonest stanza is a quatrain consisting of four heptasyllabic lines with the rhyme at the end of the couplet.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

By Dafydd ab Gwilym. far the greater part of his poetry is written in the metre called cywydd, with heptasyllabic lines rhyming in couplets.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

In the heptasyllabic couplet he is decidedly successful.

From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by Tutin, J. R.