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hexameter

Verse line of six metrical feet. The hexameter was the metre of the Greek epic poet Homer, and became the standard verse form for all ancient epic writers. It was also used in other kinds of poetry, notably the elegy. A line of iambic hexameter is called an alexandrine.



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