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Definition of Heptameter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heptameter
Literary usage of Heptameter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"... notes That hills and valleys ring, and even the echoing air Seems all composed
of sounds about them every where. IAMBIC heptameter. Formula xax 7. ..."
2. The Elements of English Versification by James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller (1910)
"BROWNING, Martin Relph The anapestic heptameter admits ... (d) Dactylic heptameter
Out of the kingdom of Christ shall be gathered,||by angels o'er Satan ..."
3. Y Cymmrodor edited by Thomas Powel, Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1904)
"Lastly, the rest of the heptameter, consisting of the three flat feet, ...
On the whole then it appears as if the heptameter had more to say to these ..."
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