heptameter
Line of seven
Heptameter is a line of verse containing seven metrical feet.
The term appears mainly in discussions of poetry and prosody: The poem's heptameter gives it an unusually long, rolling rhythm.
Rare in English verse, where pentameter and tetrameter dominate, heptameter is more common in classical Greek and Latin poetry.
Two-foot poetic line
- iambicVerse rhythm type
- trochaicStressed-unstressed metrical pattern
- anapesticMeter with galloping rhythm
- dactylicThree-beat poetic meter
spondaic · scansion · foot · stress · syllable · beat · cadence · rhythm
Peak over 14,000 feet
- hymnalReligious song collection
- medieval romanceHeroic adventure in verse
- doggerelTrivial, clumsy verse
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
Unstressed-stressed metrical units
Not often encountered
- uncommonSeldom occurring or found
- archaicBelonging to earlier times
- unwieldyAwkward to manipulate
- cumbersomeAwkwardly heavy or bulky
lengthy · extended · sprawling · elaborate · ornate · florid · antiquated · historical
dimeter
Two-foot poetic line
- iambicVerse rhythm type
- trochaicStressed-unstressed metrical pattern
- anapesticMeter with galloping rhythm
dactylic · spondaic · scansion · foot · stress · syllable · beat · cadence · rhythm · measure
fourteener
Peak over 14,000 feet
- hymnalReligious song collection
- medieval romanceHeroic adventure in verse
- doggerelTrivial, clumsy verse
couplet · rhyming · archaic · Renaissance
iambs
Unstressed-stressed metrical units
- trocheesStressed-then-unstressed metrical feet
- dactylsStressed-unstressed-unstressed units
- spondeeDouble-stress metrical unit
pyrrhic · substitution · stressed · unstressed · scansion
unusual
Not often encountered
cumbersome · lengthy · extended · sprawling · elaborate · ornate · florid · antiquated · historical · classical
heptameterdimeter
Two-foot poetic line
trimeter · tetrameter · pentameter · hexameter · free verse
meter, pentameter, decameter, hexameter, tetrameter, trimeter