hexameter

Examples

• All

• The verse here is fluid, for the most part, but hexameters do not seem to come naturally to the subject.

  Academic text (1996)

• The Liber Maiorichinus is an epic Latin poem of more than 3,500 hexameter verses.

  Academic text (1996)

• We loved to speak Latin in the street, and hexameters we sang.

  Academic text (2011)

• You go out for a bike ride and come back with an epic in hexameters.

  Sylvia (2003)

• Did he entertain the possibility that the accentual hexameter might work in English before rejecting it?

  Academic text (2016)

• So you get a rhythm such as the dactylic hexameter, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

  Aeon Video

• The rhythmic vigor of Swedish worked naturally for him within the hexameters he principally used to move the action forward.

  Academic text (2000)

• Prins presents Arnold as the champion of the accentual dactylic hexameter as crucially important for a modern English nation.

  Academic text (2016)

• The whole stanza pours down towards its final hexameter, where the pace is strikingly decelerated and brought to sonorous closure.

  Academic text (2003)

• The poet created a beautiful line of verse in hexameter that captured the audience's attention.

Synonyms

V

verse line

vshexameter

• Literature

5.4

A single line of a poem with its own rhythm

is specifically a metrical line with six feet

How Many Feet

octameter

• Literature

9.9

hexameter

• Literature

1 9.6

pentameter

• Literature

7 8.2

tetrameter

• Literature

1 9.3

trimeter

• Literature

8.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology