Hexameter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HEXAMETER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a verse line of six feet
• a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet.
• verse line consisting of six metrical feet
• A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
• a verse line having six metrical feet
ADJECTIVE:
• Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.

Words related to HEXAMETER

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How to use HEXAMETER in a sentence

• A full period, then, consists of four divisions, like hexameter verses.
• The Greek or Latin Hexameter line has, of course, six feet, or pulsations.
• Six of his hymns in hexameter verse are still extant.
• EVANGELINE, the heroine and title of a tale in hexameter verse by Longfellow, in two parts.
• Paul, Newenham, Lincolnshire, which substitutes for the concluding verse a hexameter of similar import.
• LUCILIUS, who wrote in hexameter verse, and attacked the follies and vices both of distinguished persons and of mankind in general.
• The very sound of the hexameter, that long, inimitable roll of the most various music, was enough to win the heart, even if the words were not understood.
• George Meredith’s heroines and heroes and oddities at their finger ends, and yet forget that musical name, like the close of a rich hexameter, Clare Doria Forey.
• VI Of the poetry which imitates in hexameter verse, and of Comedy, we will speak hereafter.
• The latter are written in hexameter, but by no means classic in form.
• The resuit was at least unique, in English, at any rate, namely a drama in hexameter verse.
• One form of hexameter which he invented was called Alcmanic after him.
• But Harvey most deserves our notice because he was the champion of the hexameter verse in English, and imbued even Spenser with an enthusiasm for it.
• Actual experiment and public taste have declared their verdict against hexameter verse in English.
• English verse has no measure which even remotely suggests the various flow of the hexameter.

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