hexameter

[Hex*am·e*ter]

A verse line having six metrical feet

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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 '92neid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.

Noun
a verse line having six metrical feet


n.
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 Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.

a.
Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.


Hexameter

Hex*am"e*ter , n. [L., fr. Gr. of six meters; (sc. ) hexameter verse; six + measure: cf. F. hexam'8atre. 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 '92neid 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.
Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean.

Hexameter

Hex*am"e*ter, a. Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees. Holland.

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 '92neid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.

Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.

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