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hexameter

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Recent Examples of hexameter Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables. — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026 Even 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

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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.

— James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023

Definition of tetrameter

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The majority of Senese-Grossberg’s script has the actors speaking in contemporary language, though there are performance sequences spoken in the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare.

— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
But with Shakespeare, whose characters felt so familiar inside rules of prose and iambic pentameter, Ming-Trent found a poetry partner to hep him through life’s brutalities.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026

Definition of pentameter

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Resist making a dramatic exit simply for the relief of movement.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
With faux marble flooring already bringing plenty of movement to shopping producer Lauren Arzbaecher’s apartment, a more neutral rug felt like the natural choice.

— Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2026

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