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
Afterwards, look over the one hundred and twenty stanzas of Lao T'u, in the heptameter rule; and next read a hundred or two hundred of the heptameter four-lined stanzas by Li Ch'ing-lieu.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic.
From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous
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 H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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
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