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Hexameter is a
metrical line of
verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or
major accent, of
words in an
English line of poetry; in...
- Argonautica, and Statius's Thebaid. However,
hexameters had a wide use
outside of epic. Gr****
works in
hexameters include Hesiod's
Works and Days and Theogony...
- used the
rhythmic hexameter for
literary compositions, and many of the
examples are from epitaphs. One
advantage which rhythmic hexameters gave Commodian...
- few
decades Dutch alexandrines had been
transformed into
strict iambic hexameters with a
caesura after the
third foot. From
Holland the accentual-syllabic...
- in
three syllables to
satisfy the
requirements of the poem's
dactylic hexameters.
Motto of the
Sydney Church of
England Grammar School and others. vitam...
- The 3rd-century
Christian African writer Commodian, who
wrote irregular hexameters in a po****r style,
favoured this kind with five word-accents. Thurneysen...
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while forming part of a
larger work. Each
couplet consists of a
dactylic hexameter verse followed by a
dactylic pentameter verse. The
following is a graphic...
- this line is in the
hexameter verse used in Gr**** and
Latin epic poetry. All
other Latin verses cited in this page are
hexameters as well. The fact that...
-
century AD. The
biographical tradition ****erts that
Virgil began the
hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is
thought that the collection...
- Zeus. The
Odyssey is 12,109
lines composed in
dactylic hexameter, also
called Homeric hexameter. It
opens in
medias res, in the
middle of the
overall story...
