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heptameter

/hɛpˈtamɪtə

noun Prosody

A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet.Iambic heptameters, known as ‘fourteeners’ from their syllabic count, were employed by a number of poets in the 15th and 16th centuries, for example in Chapman's translation of Homer....

Poems written in heptameter tend to jog along and are usually comic in character.
Hexameters, for example, are difficult to handle, and heptameters are apt to break into two lines of four and three stresses each, the so-called ballad metre.

Origin

Late 19th century: via late Latin from Greek heptametron, from hepta- 'seven' + metron 'measure'.

单词	heptameter
释义	heptameter /hɛpˈtamɪtə / noun Prosody A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet.Iambic heptameters, known as ‘fourteeners’ from their syllabic count, were employed by a number of poets in the 15th and 16th centuries, for example in Chapman's translation of Homer.... Poems written in heptameter tend to jog along and are usually comic in character. Hexameters, for example, are difficult to handle, and heptameters are apt to break into two lines of four and three stresses each, the so-called ballad metre. Origin Late 19th century: via late Latin from Greek heptametron, from hepta- 'seven' + metron 'measure'. Rhymes diameter, hexameter, parameter, pentameter, tetrameter
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