单词 | septenar |
释义 | septenarn. Prosody. A line of seven metrical feet, esp. the trochaic or iambic tetrameter catalectic; cf. septenary n. 3b. Also occasionally (with reference to Middle English poetry): a line or couplet with seven stresses. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > septenary septenarius1706 septenary1819 septenar1882 sevener1920 1882 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 3 356 The unrimed Septenar of the Ormulum. 1911 R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. 82 These septenars, or fourteeners, popularized by Phaer..form in the contemporary drama the transition from the irregular dancing doggerel to the rhymed decasyllabic... In the Marriage of Wit and Science regular septenars alternate with rhymed decasyllabics. 1945 E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages iii. 131 From this period [sc. the latter part of the 15th cent.] we have some of the tales [of Robin Hood] themselves. They are written in septenars. 1962 R. W. Burchfield in N. Davis & C. L. Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Stud. 100 As..the word occurs in the final position in the septenar, the stem vowel must be long. Compounds General use as a modifier, as in septenar line, septenar verse, etc. ΚΠ 1892 C. Davidson Stud. Eng. Myst. Plays xviii. 105 The Northern poets took the septenar line in its stanzaic form and laid upon it the requirements of their ancient poetry, thus building for themselves a characteristic stanza. 2004 Neophilologus 88 478 The fragment includes four septenar verses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882 |
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