hexameter|hexameters in English

noun

[hex·am·e·ter || hek'sæmɪtə(r)]

line of poetry containing six metrical units of feet

Use "hexameter|hexameters" in a sentence

1. It is a collection of moral advice, each consisting of hexameters, in four books.

2. Precious Hexameter texts of unknown or uncertain origin known as 'hexametric adespota' have never been assessed in their entirety.

3. An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter

4. Trees branch in a consistent way, leaves take their genetic form, rivers carve a sinuous route, snowflakes fall in their basic hexameter shape.

5. Composed in hexameters, about 60 lines of which were left unfinished at his death, the Aeneid incorporates the various legends of Aeneas and makes him the founder of Roman greatness.

6. Each wrote Copiously in verse, but Johan (1640-1684), who was professor of poetry at Upsala, almost entirely in Latin, while Samuel (1642-1679), especially in his Odae sveticae, showed himself an apt and fervid imitator of the Swedish hexameters of Stjernhjelm, to …

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8. Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets , with two exceptions: his lost Medea , whose two fragments are in iambic trimeter and anapest s, respectively, and his great Metamorphoses, which he wrote in dactylic hexameter , the meter of Virgil 's Aeneid and Homer 's epics.

9. Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or Anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8)