Expertlatin
- What is an example of a hexameter?
- What is an example of a hexameter verse?
- What is Latin hexameter?
- What is an example of dactylic hexameter?
What is an example of a hexameter?
A hexameter can even occur spontaneously. For example, a student may extricate himself from failing to remember a poem by saying the following, which is a hexameter in Hungarian: Itt ela/kadtam, / sajnos / nem jut e/szembe a / többi. "I'm stuck here, unfortunately the rest won't come into my mind."
What is an example of a hexameter verse?
In English, an iambic hexameter line is also known as an alexandrine. Only a few poets have written in dactylic hexameter, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the long poem Evangeline: Now had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer, And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters.
What is Latin hexameter?
hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters) (countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet. quotations ▼ (uncountable) A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.
What is an example of dactylic hexameter?
Dactylic hexameter is a historically important pattern of syllables in poetry. Lines of dactylic hexameter have six feet, divided into sets of three beats. E.g. An example of dactylic hexameter is the Latin first line of 'The Aeneid' by Virgil: "arma virumque canō, Troiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs."
