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Hearing that horrendous seven-syllable word for the first time was probably the toughest thing.
The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010
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And yet no one, except perhaps the occasional Baltimore diehard, complains about the Indianapolis Colts, who work out of a seven-syllable city.
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He found himself in his office with fingers extended, counting out the five-syllable, seven-syllable, five-syllable meter of the three-line poems.
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_ -- This is written in a peculiar metre; two seven-syllable lines, with trisyllabic rhymes, followed by two rhyming couplets of five-syllable lines with monosyllabic rhymes.
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Its metre is _ae freslige_ -- seven-syllable lines in a quatrain, rhyming _abab_: _a_ being trisyllabic, _b_ dissyllabic rhymes.
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But I hope to have accomplished the main object of distinguishing the verse from the prose without sacrifice of the thought by the simple device of turning the verse-passages into lines of the same syllabic length as those of the original -- which is most often the normal seven-syllable line -- but without any attempt at imitating the rhyme-system or alliteration.
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This is known as _cro cummaisc etir casbairdne ocus lethrannaigecht_, and consists of seven-syllable lines with trisyllabic rhymes, alternating with five-syllable lines having monosyllabic rhymes.
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The metre of the stanza is _cummasc etir rannaigecht mór ocus leth-rannaigecht_ (seven-syllable and five-syllable lines alternately, with monosyllabic rhymes _abab_).
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[Page xxiii] five-syllable line alternating with one of seven syllables, with, in some forms, two seven-syllable lines together at the end of a period, in the manner of our couplet.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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St. Ephraem was particularly fond of the seven-syllable verse line, hence called the Ephraemic.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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