Heptameter
Heptameter is one or more lines of verse containing seven metrical feet (fourteen beats).An example from Lord Byron's Youth and Age:
- 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreathe,
- All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath.
- O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been,
- Or weep as I could once have wept o'er many a vanish'd scene,-
- As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be,
- So midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me!
Nay I myself, am I the worse for
speculative, world calls barren, red-tapish, limited, and even
stupid?--To such a climax does it come in all Government and
(as it will everywhere do), and no Scavenger God intervenes. The
worth and of ever less, and finally of none: the worthless work
double geometrical ratio, with frightful expansion grows and
that enters Downing Street, will ask himself this question first
traditionary use and wont, but in very fact, for the vital
question, How to get it well done, and to keep the best.
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