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The Empress Eudocia celebrated the war in a poem in heroic metre (ib.

In summer, during the hot season, it was his custom to retreat to Tivoli, and here he composed his poems, written in heroic metre and dedicated to the pope.

It is interesting to note that the Latin poet Ennius, as reported by Cicero, called the heroic metre of one line versum longum, to distinguish it from the brevity of lyrical measures.

Jerome devoted a very brief notice to Damasus in his De Viris Illustribus, written after Damasus' death: "he had a fine talent for making verses and published many brief works in heroic metre.

He is regarded as a leading expert on epic and heroic verse.

Hence no one has ever composed a poem on a great scale in any other than heroic verse.

Riding rhyme is an early form of heroic verse.

It is a tragedy, written in heroic verse, saved from absolute failure only by the actors.

They were Greek scholars who could appreciate his translations of heroic verse."

Ossian is supposed to have lived and written his heroic verse around the 3rd century.

In ancient literature, heroic verse was synonymous with the dactylic hexameter.

When the lines are in iambic pentameter, they are referred to as heroic verse.

It was a satire in heroic verse condemning Pitt for trying to suppress liberal influences.

The Saga is interspersed with heroic verse, in the great Aryan tradition.

Some in heroic verse divinely sing; Others in artful measures lead the ring.

As in much other heroic verse, the poet here seems to object nothing to the occasional rhyming tercet.

Her husband's absence at the war inspired her heroic verses and his death her elegiac poems.

Heroic verse consists of the rhymed iambic line or heroic couplet.

It is important to insist that it is the couplet, not the single line, which constitutes heroic verse.

It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire.

First, the play should be composed in heroic verse (closed couplets in iambic pentameter).

The translation in heroic verse is of very mediocre character, and is followed by 181 pages of annotations.

Into Heroic Verse (1784).

Dryden's prosody is identical to regular heroic verse: iambic pentameter closed couplets.

His lyrics often have the delicacy of a cradle song; yet his heroic verse shows the virility of an epic poet.

Caesurae feature prominently in Greek and Latin verse, especially in the heroic verse form, dactylic hexameter.

The play is largely written in rhyming fourteener couplets, with some irregular heroic verse (as in the speeches of the comic character Ambidexter).

Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree?

The rhyme scheme is the same as in heroic verse (aa, bb, cc, dd, etc.), but Butler used feminine rhyme for humor.

At first, it seemed as if his heroics would be cut short.

"Would my going into heroics have any effect upon you?"

Not for his heroics in combat but here on the home front.

It was time for younger men to provide the heroics.

And Jordan, who had 28 points, could not return the heroics on the other end.

In truth, the era of heroics was at an end.

His plan was relatively simple and it did not include any real heroics.

"I take it your young friend has not mentioned his heroics?"

Thanks to their defense, no heroics from Jordan were necessary.

I don't care what kind of heroics they might have in mind.

But she was hoping such heroics would not be necessary.

"This is definitely no time for heroics of any kind."

But if somebody does come after you with a knife, no heroics.

But I doubt that such heroics will ever be necessary.

The problem, though, is that even his heroics might not be enough to get them into the playoffs.

There were no serious injuries reported, and not a few heroics.

Even his own were opened wide by Tuesday night's heroics.

No false heroics needed in these works, and none offered.

No time for stupid heroics: we've got to get out of here, now!

Thanks to his home run yesterday, the season goes on with opportunities for those sort of heroics again.

Charles might, too, but he'd have to gear himself up for the heroics.

To a man the team had expected to summon some heroics tonight.

It would probably destroy the concept of heroics for all time.

They then celebrate their heroics in the car back to the research lab.

Wright also provided his share of heroics throughout the 2006 season.