dactylic hexameter वाक्य

The most important Classical meter as defined by the Alexandrian grammarians was the dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homeric poetry.
The ancient elegiac couplet form of the Greeks and Romans contained a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of pentameter.
The "'metre "'of most poems is the dodecasyllable, but for some Christopher uses the dactylic hexameter.
Dactylic hexameter depends on the sequence of long and short ( or dactyl ) or long & ndash; long ( spondee ).
Today, the modern Latin poets who use the dactylic hexameter are generally as faithful to Virgil as Rome's Silver Age poets.

If the feet are primarily " dactyls " and there are six to a line, then it is a dactylic hexameter.
The poem is divided into twelve books in imitation of Virgil's " Aeneid " and is composed in dactylic hexameter.
The first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, took the form of dactylic hexameters, as did many works of pre-Socratic philosophy.
The two half-lines are each called a hemiepes ( half-epic ), as they resemble half a line of epic dactylic hexameter.
Horace was a contemporary of Virgil and, like the epic poet, he wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, but in a conversational and epistolary style.