iambic heptameter

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• Heptameter — is one or more lines of verse containing seven metrical feet (usually fourteen or twenty one syllables).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… …   Wikipedia

• iambic — Synonyms and related words: Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, antispastic, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, cadenced, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Iamb — An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in i amb). This… …   Wikipedia

• Political verse — (Greek: Politikos stichos, Πολιτικός στίχος), also known as Decapentasyllabic verse (from Greek dekapentasyllabos, δεκαπεντασύλλαβος, lit. 15 syllable ) is a metric form in Modern Greek poetry. It is an iambic verse of fifteen syllables and has… …   Wikipedia

• Common metre — or Common measure,[1] abbreviated C. M., is a poetic meter consisting of four lines which alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line, with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) and… …   Wikipedia

• Fourteener (poetry) — A Fourteener, in poetry, is a line consisting of 14 syllables, usually having 7 iambic feet, often used in 16th century English verse. Sometimes it also used to mean a poem of 14 lines, frequently a sonnet.The seventh song of Philip Sidney s… …   Wikipedia

• George Chapman — (c. 1559 ndash; May 12 1634) was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare s Sonnets by William Minto, and as …   Wikipedia

• poulter'smeasure — poul·ter s measure (pōlʹtərz) n. A metrical pattern employing couplets in which the first line is in iambic hexameter and the second is in iambic heptameter.   [From obsolete poulter, a poultry dealer (from the practice of giving a few extra eggs …   Universalium

• poulter's measure — /pohl teuhrz/, Pros. a metrical pattern using couplets having the first line in iambic hexameter, or 12 syllables, and the second in iambic heptameter, or 14 syllables. [1570 80; so called because poulters (see POULTERER) used to give extra eggs… …   Universalium

• poulter's measure — ˈpōltə(r)z noun Etymology: so called from the former practice of occasionally giving one or two extra when counting eggs by dozens : a meter in which lines of 12 and 14 syllables alternate * * * /pohl teuhrz/, Pros. a metrical pattern using… …   Useful english dictionary

• Arthur Golding — (c. 1536 ndash; c. 1605) was an English translator.He was the son of Jonathon Golding of Belchamp St Paul and Halsted, Essex, an auditor of the Exchequer, and was probably born in London. His half sister, Margaret, married John de Vere, 16th Earl …   Wikipedia