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Recent Examples of hexameter
Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.
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William Logan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.
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Laurent Dubreuil,
Harper's Magazine,
22 May 2024
On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.
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Gregory Hays,
The New York Review of Books,
27 May 2020
Sarah Ruden took upon herself the Herculean task of translating Virgil line-by-line, in iambic pentameter, the normative rhythm of English verse, as dactylic hexameter is of ancient epic.
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Willard Spiegelman,
WSJ,
22 Sep. 2017
More specifically, a grammatically- and rhythmically-correct line of dactylic hexameter, the kind used by Virgil and Ovid.
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Leah Henrickson,
Slate Magazine,
29 Aug. 2017
David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.
—
William Logan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.
—
Laurent Dubreuil,
Harper's Magazine,
22 May 2024
On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.
—
Gregory Hays,
The New York Review of Books,
27 May 2020
Sarah Ruden took upon herself the Herculean task of translating Virgil line-by-line, in iambic pentameter, the normative rhythm of English verse, as dactylic hexameter is of ancient epic.
—
Willard Spiegelman,
WSJ,
22 Sep. 2017
More specifically, a grammatically- and rhythmically-correct line of dactylic hexameter, the kind used by Virgil and Ovid.
—
Leah Henrickson,
Slate Magazine,
29 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hexameter
Noun
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Especially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss.
Noun
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The majority of Senese-Grossberg’s script has the actors speaking in contemporary language, though there are performance sequences spoken in the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare.
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But with Shakespeare, whose characters felt so familiar inside rules of prose and iambic pentameter, Ming-Trent found a poetry partner to hep him through life’s brutalities.
Noun
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Officials say the data collected helps solve and deter crime by, for example, allowing law enforcement to track a criminal’s movements.
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In the years since, the bird, affectionately dubbed Pinky, has inspired a movement.
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“Hexameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hexameter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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