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22: 378: 125:. It was used frequently in Classical prosody, and in English, the line was used frequently in narrative poetry since the Romantics. The meter is also called septenary, and this is the most common form for medieval Latin and vernacular verse, including the 419: 307: 105: 332: 43: 86: 58: 39: 203: 65: 32: 412: 438: 72: 330:
Fulk, Robert D. (2002). "Early Middle English Evidence for Old English Meter: Resolution in Poema morale".
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And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me.
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Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. (A)
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He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; (B)
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Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell." (B)
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That a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee;
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Eleventh ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2009. 264.
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As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be,
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So midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me!
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Or weep as I could once have wept o'er many a vanish'd scene,-
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All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath.
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is a type of meter where each line of verse contains seven
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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
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O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been,
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Ormulum
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Dictionary of Poetic Terms
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