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Poetic meter consisting of six feet
Dactylic hexameter is a form of meter commonly used in both Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The best known use is for epic poems, such as Homer's Iliad
Dactylic_hexameter
Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
Hexametrica, a tutorial on Latin dactylic hexameter at Skidmore College Hexameter.co, practice scanning lines of dactylic hexameter from a variety of Latin authors
Hexameter
Metrical foot
An example of dactylic meter is the first line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline (1847), which is in dactylic hexameter: This is the
Dactyl_(poetry)
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
but it is always long by position. A dactylic tetrameter catalectic is sometimes joined to the dactylic hexameter to form a couplet termed the Alcmanian
Latin_prosody
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
The dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It features
Dactylic_pentameter
Poetry meters
and the later didactic poems of Hesiod, which were composed in the dactylic hexameter. A variety of other metres were used for lyric poetry and for classical
Greek_and_Latin_metre
1720s translation by Alexander Pope
with his translation of the Iliad, Pope changed the metre from the dactylic hexameter used by the Homeric Greek text into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs
Odyssey (Alexander Pope translation)
Odyssey_(Alexander_Pope_translation)
Theory and practice of versification
pattern | – u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | – – | (the so-called dactylic hexameter, where – represents a long syllable, and u a short one.) It would
Greek_prosody
Poetic form used by Greek lyric poets
part of a larger work. Each couplet consists of a dactylic hexameter verse followed by a dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation
Elegiac_couplet
Poetic concept
consists of one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed by a line in dactylic pentameter. Because dactylic hexameter is used throughout epic poetry
Elegiac
Epic poem attributed to Homer
the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its standard edition. The Iliad is often
Iliad
Class of Ancient Greek poetic form
construction. Some fragments use meters from non-Aeolic traditions (e.g. dactylic hexameter, or the Ionic meter of Sappho fr. 134). The versification of Pindar
Aeolic_verse
Form of literature
Athens. Similarly, "dactylic hexameter", comprises six feet per line, of which the dominant kind of foot is the "dactyl". Dactylic hexameter was the traditional
Poetry
Topics referred to by the same term
tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Double dactyl This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dactylic metre. If an
Dactylic_metre
Circa 1614 English translation
rhyming fourteeners. For his Odyssey, he changed the blank verse and dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric Greek to rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter
Odyssey (George Chapman translation)
Odyssey_(George_Chapman_translation)
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
to a caesura. Dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation. Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac
Metre_(poetry)
Priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece
utterances as enigmatic prophecies and recomposed them into verse as dactylic hexameter, many of which are preserved in Greek literature. This idea, however
Pythia
Lengthy poem dealing with supernatural forces
story, poem'. In Ancient Greek, 'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of
Epic_poetry
1st-century-BC Roman poet
tradition, Virgil spent the ensuing years (perhaps 37–29 BC) on the long dactylic hexameter poem called the Georgics (from Greek, "On Working the Earth"), which
Virgil
2017 translation by Emily Wilson
original Homeric Greek's line count and reflected its traditional dactylic hexameter by employing the traditional English iambic pentameter. Her translation
The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
The_Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson_translation)
Poem written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod
poem written by ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's
Works_and_Days
Epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics. Though the choice was criticized
Evangeline
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
Alcmanian verse refers to the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry. Ancient metricians called the dactylic tetrameter the Alcmanic because of
Alcmanian_verse
Latin epic poem by Virgil
Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the Aeneid comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of its twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings
Aeneid
Epic poem attributed to Homer
12109 lines composed in dactylic hexameter, sometimes called Homeric hexameter—a metre with six metrical feet. The form of hexameter is catalectic, meaning
Odyssey
Official motto of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem is a Latin dactylic hexameter and the official motto of the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the University
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem
Ense_petit_placidam_sub_libertate_quietem
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
using the terms monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter, although seven or more feet in a line is uncommon
Metrical_foot
2018 novel by Madeline Miller
the Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Manchester Odyssey Translations English translations On Translating
Circe_(novel)
Body of literary work by Roman poet Catullus from 62 to 54 BC
130 lines open with a spondee (– –). Poems 62 and 64 are both in dactylic hexameters, but of different styles. A noticeable feature of poem 64 (but not
Poetry_of_Catullus
Early 2nd century Roman poet
sometime after 127. Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. These poems cover a range of Roman topics. This follows Lucilius—the
Juvenal
5th-century Greek epic poet
and his triumphant return. It was written in Homeric Greek and in dactylic hexameter, and it consists of 48 books at 21,286 lines. There is almost no evidence
Nonnus
Collection of satirical poems by Juvenal
satire genre featured a wide-ranging discussion of social mores in dactylic hexameter. Quintilian noted how many genres Rome borrowed from Greece but concluded
Satires_(Juvenal)
Type of Latin dactylic hexameter
The golden line is a type of Latin dactylic hexameter frequently mentioned in Latin classrooms and in contemporary scholarship about Latin poetry, but
Golden_line
Type of poetic meter based on stress
The Latin rhythmic hexameter or accentual hexameter is a kind of Latin dactylic hexameter which arose in the Middle Ages alongside the metrical kind. The
Latin_rhythmic_hexameter
Lost ancient Greek epic
BCE (see Cyclic Poets). The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter. The Iliou persis was probably composed in the seventh century BCE
Iliupersis
Lost sequel to the Odyssey
notably Eutychius Proclus. The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter. In Antiquity, the Telegony may have also been known as the Thesprotis
Telegony
otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared in other
Idyll_XI
5th-century didactic poem by Parmenides
poem written by ancient Greek philosopher Parmenides. Composed in dactylic hexameter, it originally contained roughly 800 to 3,000 lines. Only about 160
On_Nature_(Parmenides)
1st-century BC didactic poem by Lucretius
philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics
De_rerum_natura
Lost Greek epic
BC (see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Very few fragments of the Aethiopis survive today; Proclus's summary
Aethiopis
Repeating 3 to 6-syllable section of a poetic metre
elements does not apply to the dactylic hexameter or to the dochmiac metre, however. Some scholars regard the dactyl (– ᴗᴗ) and the dochmiac (ᴗ – – ᴗ
Metron_(poetry)
Pause or break in poetry or music
shores of Troy...) This line uses caesura in the medial position. In dactylic hexameter, a caesura occurs any time the ending of a word does not coincide
Caesura
Body of literary work by Ancient Greek poet Sappho
140b LP = 214 Voigt Fragments 142 and 143 can be analysed either as dactylic hexameters, or according to Aeolic principles. 168A Voigt = 178 LP Not included
Poetry_of_Sappho
History of the Trojan War told in poems
Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria,
Epic_Cycle
one. In Greek and Latin poetry, it is found in the dactylic hexameter and the first half of a dactylic pentameter, and also in anapaestic metres. It is
Biceps_(prosody)
Form of the Greek language found in Homer
because it was used as the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, by poets such as Hesiod and Theognis of Megara. Some compositions
Homeric_Greek
Literary work
mythological history of the Boeotian city of Thebes. They were composed in dactylic hexameter verse and believed to be recorded between 750 and 500 BC. The epics
Theban_Cycle
Lost Ancient Greek epic
BC) (see Cyclic Poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Both the date of composition of the Nostoi and the date that it was
Nostoi
Ancient Greek moral exhortations
a collection of moral exhortations comprising 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter. They are traditionally attributed to the Pythagorean philosophers
Golden_Verses
Metrical foot with two long (or accented) syllables
the epics of Homer and Virgil are written in dactylic hexameter. This term suggests a line of six dactyls, but a spondee can be substituted in most positions
Spondee
Type of meter (poetry)
here // the spring // we see, Fresh green // upon // the tree. Anapaest Dactyl Tristich Triadic-line poetry Greene, Roland; Cushman, Stephen; Cavanagh
Trimeter
Lost ancient Greek epic
BCE) (see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised four books of verse in dactylic hexameter, the heroic meter. The Little Iliad was probably composed in the latter
Little_Iliad
Poetic meter of four metrical feet
Trochaic tetrameter: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" (English nursery rhyme) Dactylic tetrameter: Picture your self in a boat on a river with [...] (The Beatles
Tetrameter
Collection of 87 ancient Greek hymns
collection are unified in their style and language. They are written in dactylic hexameter, the metre of Homeric poetry, and display a consistency in metrical
Orphic_Hymns
Replacing long syllables with two shorts in poetry
short -cēns) or volō scīre (with shortened -lo). In dactylic verse, such as the dactylic hexameter, resolution is not usually allowed, although in two
Resolution_(metre)
Metrical foot
literatures. Vitězslav Nezval's poem "Edison" is written in trochaic hexameter. In Greek and Latin, the syllabic structure deals with long and short
Trochee
Greek goddess of memory
according to a series of 4th-century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past
Mnemosyne
Greek epic poem by Nonnus
triumphant return to the west. It is written in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameter. The poem is thought to have been written in the 5th century AD. The
Dionysiaca
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
case, each iamb is underscored with a flap step. Anapaest Blank verse Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion
Iambic_pentameter
Greek and Latin poetic form
which consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter. A dactylic hexameter, followed by an iambic dimeter + dactylic hemiepes: – u u –
Archilochian
Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)
a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria
Ovid
Form of poetry
Joanna Baillie's "Hay making". Greek epic, in dactylic hexameter, as is Latin epic whether in hexameter or (in very old poets) Saturnian. Poetic dramatic
Stichic
C. 7th century BCE epic poem
reverse order. The poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic dactylic hexameters. The Cypria, in the written form in which it was known in classical
Cypria
2011 novel by Madeline Miller
Deception of Zeus Funeral games for Patroclus Trojan Battle Order Study Dactylic hexameter Homeric scholarship Homeric Question Chorizontes Jørgensen's law Historicity
The_Song_of_Achilles
Latin epic poem
the stylistic devices used. Thus, its 1456 verses are written in dactylic hexameter (the traditional meter of Latin epic poetry) and the poem includes
Waltharius
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
BC. The single known work by Parmenides is a philosophical poem in dactylic hexameter verse whose original title is unknown but which is often referred
Parmenides
Poem by Theocritus
otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references characters
Idyll_VI
Island home of Calypso in Homer's Odyssey
the Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Manchester Odyssey Translations English translations On Translating
Ogygia
Line consisting of four iambic feet
Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Iambic_tetrameter
Poetry of the Latin language
contemporary of Livius, introduced the traditional meter of Greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, into Latin literature; he substituted it for the jerky Saturnian
Latin_poetry
Latin epic poem by Silius Italicus (c. 80s AD)
The Punica is a Latin epic poem in seventeen books in dactylic hexameter written by Silius Italicus (c. 28 – c. 103 AD), comprising some twelve thousand
Punica_(poem)
Latin poem
poetic tradition, particularly the works of Homer, and is written in dactylic hexameter. The poem was significantly larger than others from the period, and
Annales_(Ennius)
BCE, the second book of Satires is a series of poems composed in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace. Satires 2.5 stands out in the work for its
Satires_2.5_(Horace)
Poetic line of eleven syllables
seventh syllable ("fàtta di giòco in figùra d'amóre"). Such a line is called dactylic (dattilico) and its less pronounced rhythm is considered particularly appropriate
Hendecasyllable
Ancient Greek poet
than other parts of the poems. The poems were composed in unrhymed dactylic hexameters; the ancient Greek metre was quantity-based rather than stress-based
Homer
Latin poem by Statius
divided into 12 books, each containing between 720 and 946 lines in the dactylic hexameter. There is no universally recognised theory about the poem's internal
Thebaid_(Statius)
1987 single by Public Enemy
also have a metrical complexity, making extensive use of meters like dactylic hexameter. The title phrase appears in the chorus. The song includes several
Bring_the_Noise
Pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil
single speech by Corydon. The poem has 73 lines, and is written in the dactylic hexameter metre. Eclogues 2 and 3 are thought to be the earliest of Virgil's
Eclogue_2
metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Dochmiac
Ancient Greek poems composed between c. 800 BCE and c. 500 CE
share the same artificial literary dialect of Greek, are composed in dactylic hexameter, and make use of short, repeated phrases known as formulae. It is
Homeric_Hymns
Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis
by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry. It was published
The_Seasons_(poem)
Poetry collection by Horace
or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written in Latin dactylic hexameters by the Roman poet Horace. Published probably in 35 BC and at the
Satires_(Horace)
Metres used in Plautus and Terence
allowed in the last two syllables of a word such as omnibus or dīcere with a dactylic ending (– u u), or of a word with a tribrach ending (u u u) such as senibus
Metres_of_Roman_comedy
Unfinished epic poem by Statius
youth to his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account
Achilleid
Meter of poetry
metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Iambic_trimeter
Form of lyrical poetry
metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Anacreontics
to Roman society. He changed the metre of the Homeric Greek from dactylic hexameter to Saturnian, which may have been a decision calculated to foster
Translations_of_the_Odyssey
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Choliamb
Poetic line consisting of 14 syllables
Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Fourteener_(poetry)
Characteristic of the poetic style of Homer
personification of dawn). Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting
Epithets_in_Homer
Elegy series by Ovid (2 AD)
The Ars amatoria is composed in elegiac couplets, rather than the dactylic hexameters, which are more usually associated with the didactic poem. The work
Ars_Amatoria
and the word order may be dictated by the metrical constraints of dactylic hexameter. "Flamen | Encyclopedia.com". Forsythe, Gary, A Critical History of
List_of_Roman_deities
Four-line stanza form
metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Alcaic_stanza
Metrical foot
its various inflections) cannot be used in works composed in dactylic hexameter or dactylic pentameter. For Romance language poetry, the cretic has been
Cretic
Ancient Greek mythological location
the Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Manchester Odyssey Translations English translations On Translating
Aeaea
City in Greek Mythology
the Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Manchester Odyssey Translations English translations On Translating
Telepylos
Line of verse with just one metrical foot or dipody
Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Monometer
Fictional people in Homer's Odyssey
the Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Manchester Odyssey Translations English translations On Translating
Lotus-eaters
Mythological narrative poem by Ovid
relating over 250 narratives across fifteen books; it is composed in dactylic hexameter, the meter of both the ancient Iliad and Odyssey, and the more contemporary
Metamorphoses
Section, line, or type of poem in Ancient Greek poetry
by Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter. (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as
Epode
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