Look up: Hexameter

1. Hexameter
   A line containing six metrical 'feet'. An example of an iambic hexameter is the last line of each stanza of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
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2. hexameter
   [n] - a verse line having six metrical feet
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3. hexameter
   Verse line of six metrical feet. The hexameter was the metre of the Greek epic poet Homer, and became the standard verse form for all ancient epic writers. It was also used in other kinds of poetry,...
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4. Hexameter
   Hex·am'e·ter noun [ Latin , from Greek ... of six meters; (sc. ...) hexameter verse; 'e`x six + ... measure: confer French hexamètre . See Six , and Meter .] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A verse of six feet, the first fou...
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5. Hexameter
   Hex·am'e·ter adjective Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees. Holland.
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6. hexameter
   A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. 'Leaped l...
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7. hexameter
   noun a verse line having six metrical feet
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8. Hexameter
   • (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantit...
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9. hexameter
   a line of verse containing six feet, usually dactyls ( {breve} {breve}). Dactylic hexameter is the oldest known form of Greek poetry and is the ... [3 related articles]
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10. hexameter
    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.'
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11. hexameter
    hexameter (heksăm'utur) [Gr.,=measure of six], in prosody, a line to be scanned in six feet (see versification). The most celebrated hexameter measure is dactylic, which was the meter for most Greek and Latin poetry. In dactylic hexameter each foot may have a long syllable followed by two ...
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12. Hexameter
    A hexameter is a verse of six feet, the heroic or epic measure of the Greeks and Romans. The sixth foot is always a spondee (two long syllables) or a trochee (a long and a short). The five first may be all dactyls (two short syllables and one long), or all spondees, or a mixture of both. The scheme ...
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13. Hexameter
    `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. According to Greek ...
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