10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEPTAMETER»
Discover the use of
heptameter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
heptameter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse
Lewis uses heptameter tercets throughout "The Roads": "I stand on the windy
uplands among the hills of Down / With all the world spread out beneath,
meadow and sea and town, / And ploughlands on the far-off hills that glow with
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Lewis uses heptameter tercets throughout “The Roads”: “I stand on the windy
uplands among the hills of Down / With all the world spread out beneath,
meadow and sea and town, / And ploughlands on the far-off hills that glow with
friendly ...
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
In the Ren., rhyming iambic heptameter couplets—*fourteeners—function with a
syntactic and conceptual coherence that corresponds to the quatrain stanzas of
alternating tetrameters and trimeters of ballad meter. The more regular meters ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
In the Ren., rhyming iambic heptameter couplets—*fourteeners—function with a
syntactic and conceptual coherence that corresponds to the quatrain stanzas of
alternating tetrameters and trimeters of ballad meter. The more regular meters ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
A fourteener is a line of 14 syllables, usually consisting of seven iambic feet; it is
synonymous with heptameter. But while heptameter describes a line of seven
metrical feet, the use of the term fourteener seems to have begun in the 16th ...
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Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
heptameter. A metrical line of seven feet, also known as a septenarius or a '
fourteener' (qq.v.). Greek and Latin poets used it, mostly for comic verse, but it
has been little used in English verse since the Tudor period. Thereafter it is rare
in ...
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Latin prosody made easy: The 4th ed. with the poetic ...
Dactylico- Trochaic Heptameter, or Archilochian. The Archilochian Heptameter
consists of two members, the first a Dactylic Tetrameter h priore, No. 6, the latter
an Ithyphallic, No. 41 — in other words, the first division contains four feet from
the ...
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Love Poems of Ghanānand
Example of a Savaiyd (Verse 18 Unceasing Tears) Heptameter 7 Ghananand/
jivanmQl/sujan/kl kaumdhanlhurh na\ kahumjdarsaim. Heptameter 7 Su na ja/
niyai dhaurh/kit chhaye/rahe/drig- chatig/pran tape tarsairh. Heptameter 7 Bin
pdjvas ...
9
An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds
The past bias against the anapestic heptameter is only one of the instances
where medieval Greek verse has suffered from attempts to assimilate it to modern
Greek meter (Garantoudis 1993:190—98). This bias has far-reaching effects.
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Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and ...
... but enjambs into the pentameter line and comes to rest on "purposeth," yet
unrhymed and thus pressing forward: when the d rhyme is realized, however, it
enjambs yet again into the last line, which stretches out to a climactic heptameter
and ...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEPTAMETER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
heptameter is used in the context of the following news items.
Present Music, Danceworks give devil his due in 'Temptation's Snare'
He delivered his own rhymed couplets with relish, enjoying the long, stretchy lines of iambic heptameter. The keys to the production are Powell, ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mar 14»
Style Conversational Week 1062: Sondheim and rhyme (no, they …
Brendan Beary — of the Cookie Monster poem above — reminds us that along with iambic heptameter, he's also good at sicko one-liners (er, ... «Washington Post, Feb 14»
How I Met Your Mother: "Bedtime Stories"
And that's how we find ourselves at the episode completely in iambic heptameter. Time was that folks would be satisfied with a musical episode ... «A.V. Club, Nov 13»
Gina Rinehart pens 'universe's worst poem'
An Australian poet and satirist, Geoff Lemon, said Ms Rinehart had achieved "almost functional iambic heptameter" but that the poem soon ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 12»
Kickstarter: Monster Alphabet Board Book
Each monster has a verse in iambic heptameter, a revival of a 17th century poetry technique. This is crucial for bedtime stories, as the gentle ... «Boing Boing, Dec 11»
Gene Weingarten: Get me rewrite
... at the Bat,” that cautionary drama of baseball, hubris and the frailty of hope, doled out in flawless iambic heptameter. As poetry, it's still good. «Washington Post, Oct 11»
Mike Love – Unleash the Love
I once wrote a poem that takes 12 minutes to read—it's in iambic heptameter—and it's quite a fantastic poem. In fact, I'm going to make part of it into a song. «Healthy Wealthy n Wise, Jan 06»
