Seven metric feet will yield a heptametric poem.
The line previous: trochaic. This one, in anapests, has far more syllables, see?
Hold up! See here: spondee! Read each one with force. Punch these words!
This line is iambic if "iamb" is homophonous with "yam".
If you pronounce it "I am," then this line is dactylic, but still it's heptameter.
This line is dactylic; likewise the next one. I'm quite fond of dactyls; so nicely they flow.
J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Sidney are both known for using heptameter.

Iron Noder 2015, 26/30

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