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Definition of Heptameters
1. heptameter [n] - See also: heptameter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heptameters
Literary usage of Heptameters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"The iambic heptameters of "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the
Lord" rise to the elevation of a religious processional. ..."
2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... and a few heptameters. The common forms he employs are trimeter (34),
tetrameter (30), pentameter (16), dimeter (13), and hexameter (7).5 These facts ..."
3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Amos and Hosea by William Rainey Harper (1905)
"... the line in each case being made as long or as short as the theory demands, eg.
in one strophe (Am. 3*-12) are found heptameters, hexameters, ..."
4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius August Bewer (1911)
"4io. ;„ two-line hexameter strophes; VII, 2»-»- >•-«' 3'-' 41-8- "-" in heptameters
without strophic grouping.—Of these sections he regards VII as secondary ..."
5. The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) by Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen (1903)
"The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, 1611 (complete; the whole in ' fourteeners,'
ie, heptameters, or seven-stress lines). ..."
6. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"... sounds like Emerson's ; and the first four lines of section 14 in "Walt
Whitman," or the " Song of Myself," are iambic heptameters, a perfect stanza. ..."
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