Heptameter, seven feet

(Examples of the various kinds of lines should be collected from works of standard poets).

In giving the metrical form of a line, the kind of foot is named first; then the number of measures in the line, thus: Iambic Tetrameter, Trochaic Trimeter, etc.

A Cæsura is a pause in a line, required by the meaning. Sometimes it corresponds to the group divisions, but often divides the foot.

And loved | him || with | that love | which was | her doom,

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[| marks the cæsura.

A number of terms are used to indicate the omission or addition of a syllable under certain conditions. Nothing is to be gained by their use; all these variations are but special cases of the general rule that the time of utterance for the groups must be the same.

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