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hex·am·e·ter

(hĕk-săm′ĭ-tər)
n.
1. Verse written in lines of six metrical feet, especially classical verse in which the first four feet of each line are either dactylic or spondaic, the fifth dactylic, and the sixth spondaic.
2. A single line of such verse.
[Latin, from Greek hexametros, having six metrical feet : hexa-, hexa- + metron, meter; see meter1.]
hex′a·met′ric (hĕk-sə-mĕt′rĭk), hex′a·met′ri·cal (-rĭ-kəl) adj.
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hexameter

(hɛkˈsæmɪtə)
n
1. (Poetry) a verse line consisting of six metrical feet
2. (Poetry) (in Greek and Latin epic poetry) a verse line of six metrical feet, of which the first four are usually dactyls or spondees, the fifth almost always a dactyl, and the sixth a spondee or trochee
hexaˈmetral, hexametric, ˌhexaˈmetrical adj
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hex•am•e•ter

(hɛkˈsæm ɪ tər)

n.
1. a line of verse having six metrical feet.
adj.
2. consisting of six metrical feet.
[1540–50; < Latin < Greek hexámetros; see hexa-, meter 2]
hex`a•met′ric (-səˈmɛ trɪk) hex`a•met′ri•cal, hex•am′e•tral, adj.
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hexameter

a verse having six metrical feet. — hexametrical, adj.
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hexameter

A metrical line of six feet.
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Noun 1. hexameter - a verse line having six metrical feet
verse line, verse - a line of metrical text
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Translations

hexameter

[hekˈsæmɪtəʳ] N → hexámetro m
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hexameter

n → Hexameter m
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People do, indeed, add the word 'maker' or 'poet' to the name of the metre, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the imitation that makes the poet, but the verse that entitles them all indiscriminately to the name.
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102, of the sonnet.] The rime-scheme is ababbcbcc , and in the last line the iambic pentameter gives place to an Alexandrine (an iambic hexameter).
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Your stool limps like one of Martial's distiches; it has one hexameter leg and one pentameter leg."
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It is odd therefore, that the one apposite passage which recurred to me in its entirety was in hexameters and pentameters
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When the monarch inquired from what city Homer came, and whose son he was, the priestess delivered a response in hexameters after this fashion:
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In twenty - four books of dactylic hexameter verse, it details the events of the few days near the end of the Trojan War, focusing on the withdrawal of Achilles from the contest and the disastrous effects of this act on the Greek campaign.
Iliad
In the third chapter Orchard looks at Aldhelm's hexameter style, finding it unique.
The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
De rerum natura is the only large - scale poem written in dactylic hexameter that has come down to us from the period of the Roman republic and is, with the possible exception of Vergil 's epic Aeneid, the most ambitious poem written in Latin.
Lucretius
Mitchell, incidentally, consistently speaks of this metre as 'rhymed hexameter' and is so fond of this appellation that he applies it in the case of 'Der Donaustrom', which also employs pentameters and tetrameters.
Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766): Harbinger of German Classicism
The hexameter lends gravity to the expression and language of this personal "recherche du temps perdu." Each of the poems consists of two stanzas with a total of ten lines.
Rapide e lente amnesie

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