Fourteener (poetry) Fourteener (poetry) In poetry, a fourteener is a line consisting of 14 syllables, which are usually made of seven iambic feet for which the style is also called iambic heptameter. It is most commonly found in English poetry produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. Fourteeners often appear as rhymed couplets, in which case they may be seen as ballad stanza or common metre hymn quatrains in two rather than four lines. The term may also be used as a synonym for quatorzain, a 14-line poem, such as a sonnet. Poulter's measure is a meter consisting of alternate Alexandrines combined
Hombres (poetry) point of my master’s being…". The collection ends with "The Sonnet to an Asshole", a pastiche of Albert Mérat’s poetry in "L’Idole", a compilation of poems that glorify different parts of a woman’s body. Hombres (poetry) Hombres is a collection of erotic poetry by Paul Verlaine written sometime between 1887 and 1891, with the exception of "Dizain ingénue" and "Le Sonnet du trou du cul". The collection was originally hand-written and distributed by Verlaine, himself. "Hombres" includes "The Sonnet to an Asshole" ("Le Sonnet du trou du cul"), an erotic poem co-written by Arthur Rimbaud in 1871. "Hombres" is the