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hexameter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | verse, verse line |
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The poem comprised four books of verse in dactylic hexameter, the heroic meter.
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Hermes was an epyllion, or brief mythological narrative, written in hexameter.
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In English stressed verse, the hexameter is a waltz and altogether wrong for Homer.
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The peculiar rapidity of Homer is due in great measure to his use of hexameter verse.
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The so-called Sibylline oracles are couched in classical hexameter verses.
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The dactylic hexameter was often coupled with a pentameter to produce elegiac couplets.
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He adopted Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics.
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For a fuller discussion of the prosodic features of this passage, see Dactylic hexameter.
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According to Greek mythology, hexameter was invented by the god Hermes.
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- A verse line having six metrical feet
- Hexameter is a metrical line of verse consisting of six feet. It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature, such as in the Iliad and Aeneid. Its use in other genres of composition include Horace's satires, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. ...
- A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet; the term, however, is usually used for dactylic hexameter, consisting of dactyls and spondees, the meter in which the Greek and Latin epics were written. ...
- Six feet; sometimes termed hexapody, a six-part foot, one measure made up of six feet. An example is Ernest Dowson's "Non Sum Qualis."
- A line of meter that has six feet. This type of metrical foot is widespread in Greek and Latin literature.
- A poem in which the lines have six metrical feet. (And so forth : dimeter = 2 feet, trimeter = 3 feet, tetrameter = 4 feet, heptameter = 7 feet etc.)
- (or Alexandrine). A metrical line containing six feet.
- A line of six verse feet. (an alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet.)
