heptameter

Verses of seven and eight feet are rare; they are called heptameter and octameter, respectively.

English: Composition and Literature 1899

All translation is compromise, and any decision leans one way or the other, but the idea that free verse is automatically the best and most “transparent” choice is full of assumptions, as is the idea that blank verse is somehow the perfect choice for the dactylic heptameter of classical epics.

and the pleiades : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Dorothy used the word "irregular" in the titles of three of her poems, but "Irregular Verses" bears the most glaring metrical aberrance of the three: the moment in line 43, the only line of heptameter in the poem: "Though in our riper years we each pursued a different way."

'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006

As luck would have it, on this day Tai-jui was, on account of business, compelled to go home; and having left them as a task no more than a heptameter line for an antithetical couplet, explaining that they should find a sentence to rhyme, and that the following day when he came back, he would set them their lessons, he went on to hand the affairs connected with the class to his elder grandson,

Hung Lou Meng 2003

She furthermore directed that such tablets as were already put up, should not be dismounted, and she forthwith took the lead and composed an heptameter stanza, the burden of which was:

Hung Lou Meng 2003

With these words, she walked up to the book-case, and, extracting a volume, she opened it, at random, at some verses which turned out to be a heptameter stanza.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Afterwards, look over the one hundred and twenty stanzas of Lao T'u, in the heptameter rule; and next read a hundred or two hundred of the heptameter four-lined stanzas by Li Ch'ing-lieu.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

She furthermore directed that such tablets as were already put up, should not be dismounted, and she forthwith took the lead and composed an heptameter stanza, the burden of which was:

Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

The claim of a few modern commentators that the chapter gives distinct evidences of meter (heptameter) has been demonstrated by K.C. as built on sand.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

Lumsden does not vary his measure, but preserves the iambic heptameter throughout.

The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919