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Home Dictionary Name: hexameterHexameter
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 AEligneid of Virgil In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity...
Priapean
A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot and an amphimacer in the third applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each...
Exametron
An hexameter...
Hexametrist
One who writes in hexameters...
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