单词 | in sevens |
释义 | > as lemmasin sevens d. In verse: a line of seven syllables. Also: a line in a metrical psalm or hymn tune intended to fit seven syllables. Chiefly in plural, often in in sevens. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > seven syllables heptasyllabica1771 seven1781 1781 J. Murlin Sacred Hymns 46 (note) Four Lines, all Sevens. 1847 Christian Hymns for Public & Private Worship (ed. 11) (Cheshire (Conn.) Pastoral Assoc.) p. xxviii (table) 7, 6, & 8s. M. Seven, Six, and Eights Metre... [See Hymns] 514. 1895 Derby Mercury 19 June 7/3 The lay preacher..announced that a hymn as written in a metre of eight syllables would be sung to a tune in sevens. 1967 Hispanic Rev. 35 188 A short gap after the internal rhyme in the Second Eclogue's leonines enables readers to feel the metre and make sense of the verses. Where sevens alternate with elevens, the sevens are indented. 2003 L. Callahan In Shadows of Divine Perfection i. 37 If this were the case, then lines thirteen through sixteen would constitute a quatrain of the Miltonic version of eights and sevens used in ‘L'Allegro’. < as lemmas |
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