| 释义 |
fourteener|fɔəˈtiːnə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er1.]
a. A poem of fourteen lines. rare—1.
b. A line of fourteen syllables. Also attrib.
1829Lamb Let. to Procter xvii. 157 Study that sonnet..and was this a fourteener to be rejected by a trumpery annual? 1884Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 350 Few men manage the long ‘fourteener’ with middle rhyme better than Lockhart. 1887― Hist. Elizab. Lit. i. 9 The attempt to arrange the old and apparently almost indigenous ‘eights and sixes’ into fourteener lines and into alternate fourteeners and Alexandrines. |
