Heptameter
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Heptameter is one or more lines of verse containing seven metrical feet[1] (usually fourteen or twenty-one syllables).
An example from Lord Byron's Youth and Age:
- 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreathe,
- All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath.
- O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been,
- Or weep as I could once have wept o'er many a vanish'd scene,-
- As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be,
- So midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me!
[edit] References
- ^ Harmon, William, and Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. Eleventh ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2009. 264.
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