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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...
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among many others.
Hexameters also form part of
elegiac poetry in both languages, the
elegiac couplet being a
dactylic hexameter line
paired with a dactylic...
- 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 the Low
Countries the accentual-syllabic...
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related to the
common ****ociation of the
goddess with torches. In Gr****
hexameters from
Selinus dating to the
fourth century BC,
there is
mention of "goddesses...
- Press. p. 532. ISBN 0691004838. A. A.
Markley (Autumn 1998). "Barbarous
Hexameters and
Dainty Meters: Tennyson's Uses of
classical Versification". Studies...
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using the
terms monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter,
hexameter, heptameter, and octameter,
although seven or more feet in a line is uncommon...
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interpreted as the
enigmatic prophecies and
turned them into
poetic dactylic hexameters preserved in Gr**** literature. This idea, however, has been challenged...
- foot. For example, the
epics of
Homer and
Virgil are
written in
dactylic hexameter. This term
suggests a line of six dactyls, but a
spondee can be substituted...
- 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...
