1) Measure used in the iliad 2) Six-foot line 3) Type of verse 4) Verse 5) Verse line
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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, Odyssey and Aeneid. Its use in other genres of composition include Horace`s satires, Ovid`s Metamorphoses, and the Hymns of Orpheus. According to Greek mythology, hexameter was invented by th.....
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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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• (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 quantity. • (a.) Having six metrical feet, especiall...
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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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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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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 like the roe when he hears in the woodland th...
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A line consisting of six metrical feet. Very common in Greek and Latin literature, less common in En
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Six feet
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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 four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the ...
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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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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 of this verse then is with all the varieties which...
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[
n] - a verse line having six metrical feet
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a poetic line containing six units, often broken into two groupings of three beats.
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noun a verse line having six metrical feet
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