Two centuries later, in his 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer,' John Keats expressed his appreciation for what he called the 'loud and bold' quality of Chapman's translation, which he implicitly contrasted with the more prestigious but more tightly controlled heroic couplets of Alexander Pope's 18th-century translation, thereby using one type of fourteener (a sonnet) to comment on the other (iambic heptameter). In the early 17th century, George Chapman famously used the fourteener when he produced one of the first English translations of Homer's Iliad. Examples of this form are Nicholas Grimald's A Truelove Lord Brooke's Epitaph on Sir Phillip Sydney Nicholas Breton's Phyllis in the Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse.

When the poulter's measure couplet is divided at its caesurae, it becomes a short measure stanza, a quatrain of 3, 3, 4, and 3 feet. The term was coined by George Gascoigne, because poulters, or poulterers (sellers of poultry), would sometimes give 12 to the dozen, and other times 14 (see also Baker's dozen). It was often used in the Elizabethan era. Poulter's measure is a meter consisting of alternate Alexandrines combined with Fourteeners, to form a poem of 12 and 14 syllable lines. The term may also be used as a synonym for quatorzain, a 14-line poem, such as a sonnet. 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.

It is most commonly found in English poetry produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. 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.

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