dactylic hexameter
versus hexameter dactylicus latin

Dactylic hexameter was used for the most serious Latin verse.

The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter.

Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death.

An English language example of the dactylic hexameter, in quantitative meter:

All feet in the line conform to one of the two patterns of dactylic hexameter.

The poem is divided into 17 books and is composed in dactylic hexameter.

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

The 50-line epitaph is written in verse, mostly in dactylic hexameter.

Introduction to the dactylic hexameter for Latin verse.

The metre of most poems is the dodecasyllable, but for some Christopher uses the dactylic hexameter.

Throughout the poem Abbo employs a dactylic hexameter, though with the occasional fault.

It is found in the dactylic hexameter and the dactylic pentameter.

Like Homer, Virgil wrote his poem in dactylic hexameter.

The Odyssey was written in dactylic hexameter.

Elegiac meter was considered alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

The meter consists of two halves, both shaped around the dactylic hexameter line up to the main caesura.

The lyrics also have a remarkable metrical complexity, making extensive use of meters like dactylic hexameter.

They comprise 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter verse and are traditionally attributed to Pythagoras.

The epics were composed in dactylic hexameter verse.

The choliambic meter distinguishes it from the above foundation poems, which are all in dactylic hexameters.

Dactylic hexameter depends on the sequence of long and short (or heavy and light) syllables.

The translation is not written in Homer's dactylic hexameter, but it does use emoticons to emphasize intense moments.

By "a dactylic hexameter" we imply a line or measure consisting of six of these dactyls.

For example, the epics of Homer and Vergil are written in dactylic hexameter.

For a fuller discussion of the prosodic features of this passage, see Dactylic hexameter.