hexameter
noun[CorU]
literaturespecializeduk/heksˈæm.ɪ.tər/us/heksˈæm.ə.t̬ɚ/alineinpoetrythat has sixfeet(=unitscontainingonestrongsyllableand one or twoweakerones), or therhythmofpoetrythat has thispattern:
六步格诗，六音步诗行In this Ode, Horace extollsinhexameter thevirtueof hispatron.在这首颂歌中，贺拉斯采用了六音步来颂扬其庇护人的美德。
Elegaicmetreis acoupletconsisting of one hexameter and one pentameter.挽歌格律是一种由一个六音步和一个五音步组成的对句。
Compare
pentameter
tetrameter
- Itturnsout thatrecitingpoetry-especiallyverselike Homer's thatfollowsaspecificrhythmcalled hexameter - makes anexcellentbreathingexercise.
- HewroteNova Anglia, apoeminLatinhexameters.
- Hexameter is aliteraryandpoeticformconsisting of six metricalfeetperlineas in the Iliad.
- This was atranslationof the Epic of GilgameshrenderedliterallyintoEnglishhexameters.
Literature
- action hero
- alliterative
- alternative history
- anapest
- anti-literary
- femslash
- fictionality
- fictive
- free verse
- genre fiction
- passion play
- pentameter
- poem
- poesy
- poet laureate
- theatrics
- topos
- tragedy
- tragicomic
- trilogy