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Meaning of "hexameter"
In poetry, 'hexameter' refers to a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, commonly found in epic poetry such as the Iliad and the Odyssey
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- A line in a poem having six metrical feet.
- A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.
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The epics were composed in dactylic hexameter verse.
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet.
The fragment contains seven hexameter lines.
The hexameter has six feet.
Everyone has a weakness for dactylic hexameter.
An elegiac couplet is a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter.
All of the poems are in dactylic hexameter.
Each couplet consists of a hexameter verse followed by a pentameter verse.
The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter.
It is found in the dactylic hexameter and the dactylic pentameter.
The final line of each stanza is written in iambic hexameter.
Texts in hexameter are particularly effective.
Let us take for example the hexameter verse.
She wrote poetry in hexameter verse and was particularly skilled in writing riddles or enigmas.
His preference was for the hexameter form.
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Thus the Latin hexameter took on characteristics of its own.
The sentence is also a hexameter verse.
The hexameter would later be used by many other Swedish poets.
A line with six dactylic feet is known as dactylic hexameter.
Introduction to dactylic hexameter for Latin verse.
Following the example of Virgil in dactylic hexameter.
The text is a commentary on a hexameter poem ascribed to Orpheus.
Evangeline which is in dactylic hexameter.
In modern Greek poetry hexameter was replaced by line of fifteen syllables.
The Odyssey is written in dactylic hexameter.
Hexameter verse the same poetic form as the works of Homer.
Teaching them hexameter.
Dactylic hexameter has proved more successful in German than in most modern languages.
The commentary is preceded by three Latin poems in hexameter.
The hexameter poem Phaenomena.
His poem is considered the most successful hexameter text in Lithuanian as yet.
The peculiar rapidity of Homer is due in great measure to his use of hexameter.
Hexameter is a poetic form consisting of 6 feet per line.
Donelaitis was among the first European writers of the age to employ the classical hexameter.
The second and third lines form a hexameter verse each, with a perfect regular scansion.
Ancient Greek and Latin poems were written in dactylic hexameter.
They comprise 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter verse and are traditionally attributed to Pythagoras.
Both poems are written in the same measure, trochaic hexameter.
One Mass is written entirely in hexameter verse, except for the post-Pridie which is prose.
Often the priestess 's answers to questions would be put into hexameter by a priest.
Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses ( Satires and Epistles ) and caustic iambic poetry Epodes.
And let us take as our watchwords the hexameter and decorum!
The dactylic hexameter was imitated in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Evangeline,.
In the late empire, writers experimented again by adding unusual restrictions to the standard hexameter.
In his Marian devotion, he wrote hexameter verses on the Virgin Mary.
It was a send-up of Virgil in dactylic hexameter.
A dactylic hexameter has six ( in Greek ἕξ, hex ) feet.
The so-called Sibylline oracles are couched in classical hexameter verses.
Each line was equal to a Greek hexameter about 15 syllables or 35 letters.
He also introduced into Latin the same verse used in Greek, dactylic hexameter.
