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单词 hexameter
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Definition of hexameter in English:

hexameter

noun hɛkˈsamɪtəhɛkˈsæmədər
Prosody
  • A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet.

    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.

    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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