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hexameter

Length / number of characters: 9
Number of words: 1

  • a verse line having six metrical feet
  • 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 Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity
  • Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees

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