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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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Dactylic hexameter is a form of
meter used in
Ancient Gr**** epic and
didactic poetry: 19 as well as in and epic, didactic, and satirical, and pastoral...
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Latin rhythmic hexameter or
accentual hexameter is a kind of
Latin dactylic hexameter which arose in the
Middle Ages
alongside the
metrical kind. The...
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wrote dactylic hexameters in
conversational and
epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used
dactylic hexameters for both
light and serious...
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rhyming fourteeners. For Odyssey, he
changed the
blank verse and
dactylic hexameter of the
original Homeric Gr**** to
rhyming couplets of
iambic pentameter...
- libre. In
English verse, "alexandrine" is
typically used to mean "iambic
hexameter": × / × / × / ¦ × / × / × / (×) /=ictus, a
strong syllabic position; ×=nonictus...
- 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...
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priestess at Delphi, or of his
possible son Delphus, and the
inventor of the
hexameter verses, a type of
poetic metre. In some studies, the
phrase "know thyself"...
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Thurneysen suggested that it had
developed from the
Latin hexameter, for
there is a
common type of
hexameter which has two
stresses in the
first half and three...
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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...
