noun
- lines of verse consisting of seven metrical feet
Usage: poetry; prosody
Examples
- The poet experimented with heptameters in his latest collection.
- Classical heptameters are rare in English poetry.
- She studied the rhythm of heptameters in ancient Greek verse.
- The ballad was written in alternating heptameters and pentameters.
- Few modern poets attempt to write in heptameters.
- The heptameters gave the poem an unusual, flowing quality.