Daily Archive: October 20, 2023

/// October 20, 2023

POETS Day! Fourteeners

“Fourteeners” is what you call iambic heptameter when it’s at home. It’s a fourteen-syllable poetic line divvied up into seven feet of paired syllables, unstressed followed by stressed.

Clare Briggs

/// October 20, 2023

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