septenary
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In this specimen we have the septenary without rime, a rare form.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Every sound ought to have a septenary relation to the planes of consciousness, and the differentiations of life, force and matter on each.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
Senary applied to the physical man; the septenary to his spirit, 634-l.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
The turn of a four-dimensional world is near, but the puzzle of science will ever continue until their concepts reach the natural dimensions of visible and invisible space—in its septenary completeness.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
In the Elizabethan age the alexandrine and the septenary were each used chiefly in conjunction with the other, in alternation of six-stress and seven-stress verses.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
In this play the alexandrine is the dominant measure, though mingled with occasional septenaries still.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
These are the literal meanings; the mystic meanings are very different, and among other things denote the septenary prismatic colours and other septenaries in nature.
From Simon Magus by George Robert Stow Mead
We find, therefore, tumbling verse, alexandrines, septenaries, and intricate strophic forms, all commonly written with slight regard for syllable-counting principles.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Chapman's translation of Iliad is the longest modern English poem in septenaries.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
The poem opens with a septenary— "Tho Iesu Crist an eorthe was, mylde weren his dede;" and septenaries and alexandrines are used interchangeably.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
