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dactylic hexameter
noun as in iambic pentameter
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In dactylic hexameter how many of these feet are there in a line?
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Yet it is only by mere accident that Homer dealt with gods, wars, mythical events and employed dactylic hexameter.
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A great variety of verses is used in the epitaphs, but the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac are the favorites.
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After the dactylic hexameter, the iambic trimeter was the most popular metre of ancient Greece.
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Miurus, mī-ū′rus, n. a dactylic hexameter with short penultimate syllable.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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