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...
- 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...
- 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...
- rhyming fourteeners. For Odyssey, he changed the blank verse and dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric Gr**** to rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter...
- adoption of the hexameter and other Gr**** verse forms. Quintus Ennius is the poet who is generally credited with introducing the Gr**** hexameter in Latin, and...
- interpreted as the enigmatic prophecies and turned them into poetic dactylic hexameters preserved in Gr**** literature. This idea, however, has been challenged...
- 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...