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hexastich|ˈhɛksəstɪk|
Also 6–7 hexastichon, 7 exasticke, 7–8 hexastick.
[ad. mod.L. hexastichon, a. Gr. ἑξάστιχον, neut. of ἑξάστιχος ‘of six rows, of six verses’, f. ἕξα- hexa- + στίχος row, line of verse.]
A group of six lines of verse.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1237/1 As appeereth by this hexastichon, which I find among the said Iohn Lelands written epigrams. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. Notes 19 His request to Diana in a Hexastich. 1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 23 He gave me this insuing hexastichon. 1749Ames Typog. Antiq. (1785) 301 Then follows a distich, and an hexastich by the expositor. 1800Malone Dryden (R.), Dryden..furnished Tonson with a well-known hexastick, which has ever since generally accompanied the engraved portraits of Milton. 1891[see heptastich s.v. hepta-].
Hence hexaˈstichic a., of six metrical lines.
1890Athenæum 22 Nov. 700/3 There are hexastichic strophes throughout Prov. xxx. |