1. a line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet
Usage: poetry; prosody

Examples

• The poet experimented with heptameter to create a flowing, musical rhythm.
• Chapman’s translation of Homer uses heptameter instead of the original hexameter.
• The heptameter line stretched longer than the typical pentameter found in sonnets.
• Students struggled to identify the seven feet in each heptameter verse.
• The ballad meter alternated between heptameter and trimeter lines.
• Medieval poetry sometimes employed heptameter for narrative verses.