Word: heptameter

Category: heptameter

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Translations: heptameter

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spanish
Translations:
heptámetro
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german
Translations:
Heptameter
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polish
Translations:
heptametr
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croatian
Translations:
sedmerac

The meaning and "use of": heptameter

noun
  • 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.

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