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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
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in
Hexameter
Poetic form used by Greek lyric poets
while forming part of a larger work. Each couplet consists of a dactylic hexameter verse followed by a dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic
Elegiac_couplet
Unfinished epic poem by Statius
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 of
Achilleid
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
Thurneysen suggested that it had developed from the Latin hexameter, for there is a common type of hexameter which has two stresses in the first half and three
Iambic_pentameter
Line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables
libre. In English verse, "alexandrine" is typically used to mean "iambic hexameter": × / × / × / ¦ × / × / × / (×) /=ictus, a strong syllabic position; ×=nonictus
Alexandrine
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
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
Epic poem attributed to Homer
lines composed in dactylic hexameter, sometimes called Homeric hexameter—a metre with six metrical feet. The form of hexameter is catalectic, meaning that
Odyssey
Poetry meters
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
Mythical prophet at Delphi
priestess at Delphi, or of his possible son Delphus, and the inventor of the hexameter verses, a type of poetic metre. In some studies, the phrase "know thyself"
Phemonoe
Metrical foot
An anapaest (/ˈænəpiːst, -pɛst/; also spelled anapæst or anapest, and also called antidactyl or antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry
Anapaest
Feature of Latin and Greek poetic metre
that require a long syllable at the end of a line, including dactylic hexameters and iambic trimeters. It can also be found in the centre of a line in
Brevis_in_longo
Metre in early Roman poetry
adoption of the hexameter and other Greek verse forms. Quintus Ennius is the poet who is generally credited with introducing the Greek hexameter in Latin, and
Saturnian_(poetry)
Poem written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod
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
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
Poetic concept
of one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed by a line in dactylic pentameter. Because dactylic hexameter is used throughout epic poetry, and
Elegiac
Ancient description of an area or territory
Periegetes of Alexandria's Οικουμένης περιήγησης Periegesis of the World, in hexameter, usually translated Survey of the World Avienius's Latin translation of
Periegesis
C. 7th century BCE epic poem
the Epic Cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic hexameter verse. The story of the Cypria comes chronologically at the beginning
Cypria
Theory and practice of versification
– 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 appear
Greek_prosody
Metrical foot with two long (or accented) syllables
foot. For example, 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
Spondee
Circa 1614 English translation
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
patterns were based on syllable weight rather than stress. In the dactylic hexameters of Classical Latin and Classical Greek, for example, each of the six feet
Metre_(poetry)
Country in Northern Europe
Seasons) is a landmark of the Lithuanian fiction literature, written in hexameter. With a mix of Classicism, Sentimentalism and Romanticism, the Lithuanian
Lithuania
Four-line stanza form
Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Sapphic_stanza
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
Metrical foot
hexameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of six iambic feet. In English verse, "alexandrine" is typically used to mean "iambic hexameter"
Iamb_(poetry)
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 through
De_rerum_natura
Class of Ancient Greek poetic form
Some fragments use meters from non-Aeolic traditions (e.g. dactylic hexameter, or the Ionic meter of Sappho fr. 134). The versification of Pindar and
Aeolic_verse
Latin adage
illis, meaning "Times are changed; we also are changed with them". This hexameter is not found in Classical Latin, but is a variant of phrases of Ovid,
Tempora_mutantur
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
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
Poetic line of four trochaic feet
Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Trochaic_tetrameter
1st-century-BC Roman poet
his aloofness. The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is thought the collection was published
Virgil
Lengthy poem dealing with supernatural forces
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 Hesiod
Epic_poetry
Metrical pattern in poetry
Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Lekythion
Collection of satirical poems by Juvenal
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)
Verse form created by Edmund Spenser
in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is A B A B B C B C C {\displaystyle \mathrm
Spenserian_stanza
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
Ancient Greek moral exhortations
collection of moral exhortations comprising 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter. They are traditionally attributed to the Pythagorean philosophers. The
Golden_Verses
English author (c. 1552/3 – 1631)
pupil. Harvey wished to be "epitaphed as the Inventour of the English Hexameter," and was a prime mover in a literary clique known as the Areopagus which
Gabriel_Harvey
Ancient Greek poet
in an artificial literary language or "Kunstsprache" only used in epic hexameter poetry. Homeric Greek shows features of multiple regional Greek dialects
Homer
Latin hexameter poem
The Ilias Latina is a short Latin hexameter version of Homer's Iliad that gained popularity in antiquity and remained popular through the Middle Ages
Ilias_Latina
Poetic line of eleven syllables
Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Hendecasyllable
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used dactylic hexameters for both light and serious
Latin_prosody
Epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
verse-form which, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It features two halves, each consisting
Dactylic_pentameter
Lost Greek epic
(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
the metron as having two long elements does not apply to the dactylic hexameter or to the dochmiac metre, however. Some scholars regard the dactyl (–
Metron_(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
Replacing long syllables with two shorts in poetry
Such a position, which is normally two short syllables, as in a dactylic hexameter, is known as a biceps element. Resolution is generally found in Greek
Resolution_(metre)
Four-line stanza form
Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Alcaic_stanza
Machine for generating Latin verses
Machine, is a 19th century invention that mechanically generated Latin hexameter. It was built from 1830 to 1845 by a grocer and printing shop worker named
The_Eureka
Poetic metre used in Greek and Latin, especially in Roman comedy
match the metre, but not always. Lucilius also wrote satire in dactylic hexameters, a practice later followed by Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. A different
Trochaic_septenarius
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)
Lost ancient Greek epic
(see Cyclic Poets). The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter. The Iliou persis was probably composed in the seventh century BCE, but
Iliupersis
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Choliamb
Metrical feature found in Roman comedy
Plautus. In the elevated style of Ennius's Annals, written in dactylic hexameters, brevis breviāns hardly appears, apart from quasi, ubi, tibi, sibi (alongside
Brevis_brevians
Form of literature
Similarly, "dactylic hexameter", comprises six feet per line, of which the dominant kind of foot is the "dactyl". Dactylic hexameter was the traditional
Poetry
Medieval hymn to Mary, mother of Jesus
ˈmater]; "Loving Mother of our Redeemer") is a Marian hymn, written in Latin hexameter, and one of four seasonal liturgical Marian antiphons sung at the end
Alma_Redemptoris_Mater
Ancient Greek poem
Margites to Pigres, a Greek poet of Halicarnassus. It is written in mixed hexameter and iambic lines, an oddity characteristic also of the Batrachomyomachia
Margites
Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis
Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry. It was published as
The_Seasons_(poem)
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 dialogue
Stichic
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)
Collection of prophecies used in Rome
Sibyllini) were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameter verses, that, according to tradition, were purchased from a sibyl by the
Sibylline_Books
Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Kamil_(metre)
Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC)
" Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works
Horace
Type of meter (poetry)
Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Trimeter
Metrical foot
Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline (1847), which is in dactylic hexameter: This is the / forest prim- / eval. The / murmuring / pines and the /
Dactyl_(poetry)
Lost ancient Greek epic
(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
5th-century Greek epic poet
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
Lost Ancient Greek epic
(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 set
Nostoi
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 suggestion
Dionysiaca
Medieval herbal
plants), also known by the author's pseudonym, Macer Floridus, is a Latin hexameter poem on the properties of herbs. It was written, probably by Odo of Meung-sur-Loire
Macer_Floridus
Body of literary work by Roman poet Catullus from 62 to 54 BC
the elegies (where it occurs in 63% of hexameters and 56% of pentameters) than in the epigrams (56% of hexameters and 36% of pentameters). On the whole
Poetry_of_Catullus
Epic poem attributed to Homer
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
Ancient Greek hexameter poem
Greek: Κάμινος, Kaminos), or "Potters" (Κεραμεῖς, Kerameis), is a 23-line hexameter poem that was variously attributed to Homer or Hesiod during antiquity
Kiln_(poem)
by a long 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
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 in
Homeric_Greek
brevis in longo at the end of the line). For example, in the dactylic hexameter, much use is made of biceps syllables, but there is no anceps and no resolution:
Anceps
Latin poem in dactylic hexameter by Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Ordo Urbium Nobilium is a Latin poem in dactylic hexameter by Decimus Magnus Ausonius. It was written after a journey Ausonius took through the Roman
Ordo_urbium_nobilium
the sea change the sky [upon them], not their souls or state of mind Hexameter in epistle 11 of Horace's Epistles. Seneca shortens it to Animum debes
List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)
Venetian gold coin
takeover of Venice by Napoleon in 1797. The reverse bears a motto in Latin hexameter: Sit tibi, Christe, datus // quem tū regis, iste ducātus ("Christ, let
Sequin_(coin)
Metres used in Plautus and Terence
occasionally found in the fragments of Early Latin tragedy and in Ennius's hexameters in a passage quoted by Apuleius (Apol. 39). But apart from in certain
Metres_of_Roman_comedy
1st-century AD Latin didactic poem about celestial phenomena
Astronomicon, is a Latin didactic poem about celestial phenomena, written in hexameters and divided into five books. The Astronomica was written c. AD 30–40 by
Astronomica_(Manilius)
Form of lyrical poetry
Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Anacreontics
Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)
continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The
Ovid
1720s translation by Alexander Pope
his translation of the Iliad, Pope changed the metre from the dactylic hexameter used by the Homeric Greek text into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs of
Odyssey (Alexander Pope translation)
Odyssey_(Alexander_Pope_translation)
Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)
Dochmiac
Verse of the classic meter
pp. 140–141. Kiparsky, P. (2018). "Indo-European origins of the Greek hexameter". In Hackstein, O., & Gunkel, D. (2018). Language and Meter (pp. 77–128)
Glyconic
Poetry of the Latin language
Livius, introduced the traditional meter of Greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, into Latin literature; he substituted it for the jerky Saturnian meter
Latin_poetry
Pause or break in poetry or music
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 with
Caesura
Ancient Greek poet
that the poet Olen was the first oracle there and the inventor of the hexameter. Both Olen and the Hypoboreans were more usually associated with the sanctuary
Boeo
Conjunction for emphasis
of such is Ovid's hendiadys in Metamorphoses to maintain his dactylic hexameter: "commune est pignus onusque" (common is the pledge and burden). Hendiadys
Hendiadys
Modern form of the Swedish language
He was the first to introduce the hexameter into the Swedish language with his epic Hercules in 1658. The hexameter is used in the Latin language and
Modern_Swedish
Section, line, or type of poem in Ancient Greek poetry
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 in
Epode
1906 poem by Alfred Noyes
genuinely excited by that kind of romantic story." "The Highwayman" uses hexameter that mixes iambs and anapaests. The rhythm is suggestive of the foot falls
The_Highwayman_(poem)
Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Tawil
Feature of Ancient Greek prosody
D. Stephens. Similar laws which have been discovered in the dactylic hexameter are that if a word ends the fifth or fourth foot it is almost never, or
Porson's_law
Literary work
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 took
Theban_Cycle
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