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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 (also
known as
heroic hexameter and the
meter of epic) is a form of
meter or
rhythmic scheme frequently used in
Ancient Gr**** and Latin...
- libre. In
English verse, "alexandrine" is
typically used to mean "iambic
hexameter": × / × / × / ¦ × / × / × / (×) /=ictus, a
strong syllabic position; ×=nonictus...
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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...
- He also
wrote dactylic hexameters in
conversational and
epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used
dactylic hexameters for both
light and serious...
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social aloofness. The
biographical tradition ****erts that
Virgil began the
hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is
thought that the collection...
- The
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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Czech literatures. Vitězslav Nezval's poem
Edison is
written in
trochaic hexameter. In Gr**** and Latin, the
syllabic structure deals with long and short...
- 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...
