Definition of hexameter in English:

hexameter

noun hɛkˈsamɪtəhɛkˈsæmədər

Prosody

A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet.
〔诗韵〕六音步诗行
Example sentencesExamples
- Metrically, the ‘Hymn’ justifies Coleridge's claims for the English hexameter.
- For Schlegel, the feet of the hexameter must be of equal length, containing either one long and two short syllables or two long ones.
- My poetic skills were not up to constructing dactyllic hexameters, and I had already settled on the haiku form.
- Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola.
- Longfellow wrote in hexameters, in the tradition of the classical masters of he epic, Homer and Vergil.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek hexametros 'of six measures' (from hex 'six' + metron 'measure').

Rhymes

diameter, heptameter, parameter, pentameter, tetrameter

Definition of hexameter in US English:

hexameter

nounhɛkˈsæmədərhekˈsamədər

Prosody

A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls.
〔诗韵〕六音步诗行
Example sentencesExamples
- Longfellow wrote in hexameters, in the tradition of the classical masters of he epic, Homer and Vergil.
- My poetic skills were not up to constructing dactyllic hexameters, and I had already settled on the haiku form.
- Metrically, the ‘Hymn’ justifies Coleridge's claims for the English hexameter.
- For Schlegel, the feet of the hexameter must be of equal length, containing either one long and two short syllables or two long ones.
- Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek hexametros ‘of six measures’ (from hex ‘six’ + metron ‘measure’).

单词	hexameter
释义	Definition of hexameter in English: hexameter noun hɛkˈsamɪtəhɛkˈsæmədər Prosody A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet. 〔诗韵〕六音步诗行 Example sentencesExamples Metrically, the ‘Hymn’ justifies Coleridge's claims for the English hexameter. For Schlegel, the feet of the hexameter must be of equal length, containing either one long and two short syllables or two long ones. My poetic skills were not up to constructing dactyllic hexameters, and I had already settled on the haiku form. Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola. Longfellow wrote in hexameters, in the tradition of the classical masters of he epic, Homer and Vergil. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek hexametros 'of six measures' (from hex 'six' + metron 'measure'). Rhymes diameter, heptameter, parameter, pentameter, tetrameter Definition of hexameter in US English: hexameter nounhɛkˈsæmədərhekˈsamədər Prosody A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls. 〔诗韵〕六音步诗行 Example sentencesExamples Longfellow wrote in hexameters, in the tradition of the classical masters of he epic, Homer and Vergil. My poetic skills were not up to constructing dactyllic hexameters, and I had already settled on the haiku form. Metrically, the ‘Hymn’ justifies Coleridge's claims for the English hexameter. For Schlegel, the feet of the hexameter must be of equal length, containing either one long and two short syllables or two long ones. Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek hexametros ‘of six measures’ (from hex ‘six’ + metron ‘measure’).
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