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hexameter - use in sentences
Adjective modifier
- Latin: The inscription is in Latin hexameters, the end of each line being marked by a covered cup ( the Argentein emblem ).
- dactylic: Should we revive dactylic hexameter for What on Earth features?
- iambic: An example of an iambic hexameter is the last line of each stanza of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
- Homeric: What better test case to use for this purpose than Homeric hexameters?
- heroic: The verse-form is a heroic hexameter with an Iambic trimeter attendant upon it.
Modifies a noun
- poetry: III.2 ( a ) Early Greek Hexameter Poetry The selection includes most of what is worth reading in this field.
- line: Its hexameter line seems able to synchronize heart and breathing, with beneficial effect on blood-pressure too.
- verse: I gave Greek names to all our farming tools, and cheered the cattle with hexameter verse.
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