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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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
collection of
moral exhortations comprising 71
lines written in
dactylic hexameter. They are
traditionally attributed to the
Pythagorean philosophers. The...
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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...
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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...
- Zeus. The
Odyssey is 12,109
lines composed in
dactylic hexameter, also
called Homeric hexameter. It
opens in
medias res, in the
middle of the
overall story...
