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Recent Examples of hexameterEven Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.—William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025 At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.—Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.—Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020 Sarah Ruden took upon herself the Herculean task of translating Virgil line-by-line, in iambic pentameter, the normative rhythm of English verse, as dactylic hexameter is of ancient epic.—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017 More specifically, a grammatically- and rhythmically-correct line of dactylic hexameter, the kind used by Virgil and Ovid.—Leah Henrickson, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
This task — writing a poem about a worm in anapestic tetrameter, a very specific and satisfyingly arcane poetic meter — is a challenging one, but ChatGPT was the clear winner, followed by a distant grouping of Bing then Bard.
By and large, Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter.
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Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Screenwriter Michael Lesslie oversaw this adaptation, which carries with it unfortunate relics of an earlier time — not the iambic pentameter, which is sacred, but references to kings and lords and a royal society that doesn’t translate one bit to the modern corporate world.
Both judges advised Elaine to finish her movements completely.
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Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Following its defeat by Communist Party forces in the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Nationalist movement, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to the island in 1949 as a government in exile.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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