It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire.
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Caesurae feature prominently in Greek and Latin verse, especially in the heroic verse form, dactylic hexameter.
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Existing novels will continue to exist, in digital form, but people will lose the knack of reading them, just as they long ago lost the ability to read heroic verse epics.
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The most famous work in OHG is the Hildebrandslied, a short piece of Germanic alliterative heroic verse which besides the Muspilli is the sole survivor of what must have been a vast oral tradition.
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The poem comprised four books of verse in dactylic hexameter, the heroic meter.
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Davenant wrote many of the bridging scenes and recast much of Shakespeare's verse as heroic couplets.
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Preferring to pass on their exploits in heroic song and verse, they left no written history or literature and, alas, many questions about their culture.
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These high medieval heroic epics are written in rhymed strophes, not the alliterative verse of Germanic prehistory.
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He also retained Tennyson's blank verse style and the basic story line about a heroic princess who runs a women's college and the prince who loves her.