“Poems written in heptameter tend to jog along and are usually comic in character.”

“Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born.”

“An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.”

“Hexameters, for example, are difficult to handle, and heptameters are apt to break into two lines of four and three stresses each, the so-called ballad metre.”

“The Shelleyan rhapsody is here followed by Gilbertian patter in anapestic heptameters that rhyme internally and terminally.”