Verses of seven and eight feet are rare; they are called heptameter and octameter, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [English: Composition and Literature] Reference

With these words, she walked up to the book-case, and, extracting a volume, she opened it, at random, at some verses which turned out to be a heptameter stanza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng] Reference

She furthermore directed that such tablets as were already put up, should not be dismounted, and she forthwith took the lead and composed an heptameter stanza, the burden of which was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

Afterwards, look over the one hundred and twenty stanzas of Lao T'u, in the heptameter rule; and next read a hundred or two hundred of the heptameter four-lined stanzas by Li Ch'ing-lieu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

Dorothy used the word "irregular" in the titles of three of her poems, but "Irregular Verses" bears the most glaring metrical aberrance of the three: the moment in line 43, the only line of heptameter in the poem: "Though in our riper years we each pursued a different way.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference

All translation is compromise, and any decision leans one way or the other, but the idea that free verse is automatically the best and most “transparent” choice is full of assumptions, as is the idea that blank verse is somehow the perfect choice for the dactylic heptameter of classical epics.    From Wordnik.com.  [and the pleiades : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

As luck would have it, on this day Tai-jui was, on account of business, compelled to go home; and having left them as a task no more than a heptameter line for an antithetical couplet, explaining that they should find a sentence to rhyme, and that the following day when he came back, he would set them their lessons, he went on to hand the affairs connected with the class to his elder grandson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng] Reference

Lumsden does not vary his measure, but preserves the iambic heptameter throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference

The heptameter is usually divided into a tetrameter and a trimeter; the octameter, into two tetrameters.    From Wordnik.com.  [English: Composition and Literature] Reference

The claim of a few modern commentators that the chapter gives distinct evidences of meter (heptameter) has been demonstrated by K.C. as built on sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of Composition] Reference

I was allured into the audacity of this experiment by consideration of a fact which hitherto does not seem to have been taken into consideration by any translator of the half divine humourist in whose incomparable genius the highest qualities of Rabelais were fused and harmonized with the supremest gifts of Shelley: namely, that his marvellous metrical invention of the anapæstic heptameter was almost exactly reproducible in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Song] Reference

"Let the three words 'red plum blossom,'" she then suggested, "be used for rhymes; and let each person compose an heptameter stanza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

“Let the three words ‘red plum blossom,’” she then suggested, “be used for rhymes; and let each person compose an heptameter stanza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng] Reference

Thayer tells Casey’s story in rhyming couplets of iambic heptameter, a nearly obsolete verse form known as the fourteener because a line typically has 14 syllables or seven iambic feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 October 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

Afterwards, look over the one hundred and twenty stanzas of Lao T’u, in the heptameter rule; and next read a hundred or two hundred of the heptameter four-lined stanzas by Li Ch’ing-lieu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng] Reference

As luck would have it, on this day Tai-jui was, on account of business, compelled to go home; and having left them as a task no more than a heptameter line for an antithetical couplet, explaining that they should find a sentence to rhyme, and that the following day when he came back, he would set them their lessons, he went on to hand the affairs connected with the class to his elder grandson, Chia Jui, whom he asked to take charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

(click to show comment) oops – don’t think I can correct a comment after I posted – read “hexameter” for “heptameter” … sorry!.    From Wordnik.com.  [and the pleiades : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

A heptameter stanza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference