fourteener

fourteener
/fawr"tee"neuhr, fohr"-/, n. Pros.
a line, esp. an iambic line, consisting of 14 syllables.
[1820-30; FOURTEEN + -ER1]

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      a poetic line of 14 syllables; especially, such a line consisting of seven iambic feet. The form is also called a heptameter or septenary. It was used in Greek and Latin prosody and flourished in Elizabethan English narrative verse but since then has been used only rarely. When each fourteener is written as two lines of eight and six syllables, it becomes the standard ballad metre, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

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