Thread: Heptameter?
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Unread 01-11-2011, 11:23 PM
David Rosenthal David Rosenthal is offline
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Originally Posted by Susan McLean View Post
To my ear, heptameter works better as a meter in English than hexameter does. That is because the tet/tri combination is very common in English, and that sounds a lot like heptameter when you hear it rather than seeing it.
That is an excellent point. I frankly haven't read much heptameter, but I bet it would work if I heard it this way.

David R.
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