Definition of Hexameters. Meaning of Hexameters. Synonyms of Hexameters

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Definition of Hexameters

Hexameter
Hexameter Hex*am"e*ter, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? of six meters; (sc. ?) hexameter verse; "e`x six + ? measure: cf. F. hexam[`e]tre. See Six, and Meter.] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the [AE]neid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. --Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. --Coleridge.
Hexameter
Hexameter Hex*am"e*ter, a. Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees. --Holland.

Meaning of Hexameters from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The 3rd-century Christian African writer Commodian, who wrote irregular hexameters in a po****r style, favoured this kind with five word-accents. Thurneysen...
- Press. p. 532. ISBN 0691004838. A. A. Markley (Autumn 1998). "Barbarous Hexameters and Dainty Meters: Tennyson's Uses of classical Versification". Studies...
- Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Gr**** poetry. It was published as...
- social aloofness. The biographical tradition ****erts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection...
- Vosmaer undertook the gigantic task of translating Homer into Dutch hexameters, and he lived just long enough to see this completed and revised. In 1873...