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Recent Examples of hexameter
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.
—Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
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
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
With one, epic style — stage behavior was often tender, intimate — was established primarily by musical meter, as grand, propulsive and firm as the hexameters of Homer.
—Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2016
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
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
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
With one, epic style — stage behavior was often tender, intimate — was established primarily by musical meter, as grand, propulsive and firm as the hexameters of Homer.
—Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hexameter
Noun
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A couple of regional and college theaters are ending their regular seasons in April with Shakespeare plays, and a couple of other events are on tap to keep the iambic pentameter flowing.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Apr. 2025
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The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For instance, people often mistake a dog’s wagging tail as a sign of happiness, but the American Kennel Club suggests that the wagging movement only indicates that the dog is emotionally aroused.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Comment In the semi-twilight of tech rehearsal at the cavernous Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, Tina Landau is scrutinizing the movement of lanterns.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Hexameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hexameter. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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