fourteenern.
/fɔːˈtiːnə/ a. A poem of fourteen lines. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > poem of fourteen lines
decatessarada1614
fourteener1829
1829 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 208 Study that sonnet..and was this a fourteener to be rejected by a trumpery annual?
b. A line of fourteen syllables. Also attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > fourteen syllables
tessaradecasyllabon?c1622
service metre1841
fourteener1884
1884 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 350 Few men manage the long ‘fourteener’ with middle rhyme better than Lockhart.
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. i. 9 The attempt to arrange the old and apparently almost indigenous ‘eights and sixes’ into fourteener lines and into alternate fourteeners and Alexandrines.
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