In the heptasyllabic couplet he is decidedly successful. From Wordnik.com. [Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock)] Reference
So English uses ‘most intelligent’ not ‘intelligentest’ where Latin has no problem with a heptasyllabic intelligentissimus. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Commoner and Cleverer] Reference
So English uses 'most intelligent' (not 'intelligentest') where Latin has no problem with a heptasyllabic. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
They are uniformly constructed with an introduction and a dialogue; the introduction is composed of from five to ten strophes of four heptasyllabic verses; the dialogue between two persons or two groups of persons contains forty four strophes (twenty-two for each interlocutor) similar to those in the prologue and forming an alphabetic acrostic. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Textually, the departure from normal German octosyllabic verse and the almost exclusive use in the first volume (1576) of Italian poetic forms – for example the decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic triplet with the rhyme pattern AAA, ABA, ABB, or else the six-line hexasyllabic or heptasyllabic, divided into three couplets with the rhyme pattern AA, BB, CC – indicate the extent to which Regnart was influenced by his Italian models; this influence is less marked, however, in the second and third books (1577–9). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
” It contains 259 stanzas of eight lines each, in heptasyllabic metre, with alternate rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
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