hexameter

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Recent Examples of hexameter 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 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 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 With one, epic style — stage behavior was often tender, intimate — was established primarily by musical meter, as grand, propulsive and firm as the hexameters of Homer. Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hexameter
Noun
  • The movie does use certain software in order to ensure that the rhymes of Dr Seuss’ famous feline creation are structured in iambic pentameter, Carloni explained.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 June 2025
  • Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.
    William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her off-ball movement, pace and clinical finishing are sure to strike fear into any and all opponents.
    Neel Shelat, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • The movie presents the years of Agnes’s life out of order, a choice that invites us into her experience of surreal circling rather than forward movement.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 29 June 2025

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“Hexameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hexameter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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