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		The most celebrated hexameter measure is dactylic, which was the meter for most Greek and Latin poetry.
		In classical prosody, a line in which the first four feet are either dactylic or spondaic, the fifth dactylic, and the sixth spondaic.
		The Iliad and the Odyssey are composed in dactylic hexameter and are of nearly the same length.
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	dactylic pentameter \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Dactylic pentameter is a form of meter in poetry.
		It is normally found the second line of the classical Latin or Greek elegiac couplet, following the first line of dactylic hexameter.The meter consists of two halves, both shaped around the dactylic hexameter line up to the main caesura.
		That is, it has two dactyls (for which spondees can be substituted), following by a longum, followed by two dactyls (which must remain dactyls), followed by a longum.
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	The Classics Pages: Antony Kamm's 'The Romans': 7.1 Latin Literature
		This is the classic iambic pentameter of five feet, each comprising one short and one long syllable; it is the basis of all the verse in Shakespeare’s plays.
		The equivalent line in Latin poetry is the dactylic hexameter (borrowed from the Greek) of six feet, each comprising one long and two short syllables, or two long syllables, with a break in the middle of the third foot called a caesura.
		The equivalent in Latin is the graceful elegiac couplet: a dactylic hexameter followed by a pentameter, a line of five feet comprising two parts, each of two-and-a-half feet.
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		Of the metres of the ancients by far the most often employed, and no doubt the oldest, was the dactylic hexameter, a combination of six feet, five successive dactyls and a spondee or trochee: This was known to the ancients as " epic " verse, in contrast to the various lyrical measures.
		It was the opinion of V. Christ that the origin of the hexameter was to be sought in hieratic poetry, the fulness of the long dactylic line attracting the priests to its use in the delivery of oracles, from which it naturally passed to solemn tales of the actions of gods and heroes.
		Although he is actually writing in dactylic hexameters, he does not mention this form of verse; he is chiefly occupied in describing, rather unscientifically, the iambic trimeter, and in praising the iamb, pes cites.
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	Pentameter - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The pentameter scarcely exists except in conjunction with the hexameter, to which it always succeeds in elegaic verse.
		The invention of the rigidly dactylic form was attributed by the Greeks to Archilochus.
		The pentameter was always considered to add a melancholy air to verse, and it was especially beloved by the Greeks in those recitations (pai,liwSeirai) to the sound of the flute, which formed the earliest melodic performances at Delphi and elsewhere.
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	Pentameter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In poetry, a pentameter is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
		Iambic pentameter is one of the most commonly used meters in English, used extensively by William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordsworth, to name but three of the many poets who have employed it.
		The Dactylic Pentameter is found in elegiac poetry as the second in a couplet consisting of a Dactylic Hexameter and a Pentameter.
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		Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect.
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two lines of iambic tetrameter followed by two lines of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
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	Versification
		A stanza of seven iambic pentameter lines rhyming ababbcc, known as rhyme royal, was frequently used by Chaucer and his followers and was often imitated by later poets.
		Apart from degrees and shifts of stress, another kind of variation from the theoretical pattern must be accounted for in terms of the length and phonetic character of the pauses, or intervals, between syllables of verse.
		In the typical foot of a dactylic hexameter, for example (see Latin example in the accompanying table), the first syllable is thought of as being longer than the other two and not as being accented more strongly than the others.
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	Meter in poetry
		dactyl: A poetical foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented
		This meter plays a similar role to pentameter in English verse.
		See also: Alexandrine, Dactylic hexameter, Elegiac couplet, Hendecasyllable, Heroic couplet, Iambic pentameter
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	Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus, for example, blank verse is unrhymed "iambic pentameter," a meter composed of five feet per line in which the kind of feet called iambs predominate.
		The most frequently encountered line of English verse is the iambic pentameter, in which the metrical norm is five iambic feet per line, though metrical substitution is common and rhythmic variations practically inexhaustible.
		Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter are commonly known as blank verse.
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	Metre (poetry) peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The dactylic hexameter was imitated in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Evangeline : :This is the forest primeval.
		Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegy distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragedy and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a list of verse forms which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect (although see Pale Fire for a non-trivial case).
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	Iamb: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The iambic pentameter is one of the most powerful measures in English poetry.
		For instance, iambic pentameter, dactylic tetrameter, etc. Table of contents 1 Greek and...by two unaccented iamb : Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an...
		An iamb is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for versification
		The most celebrated hexameter measure is dactylic, which was the meter for most Greek and Latin poetry.
		pentameter PENTAMETER [pentameter] [Grmeasure of five], in prosody, a line to be scanned in five feet (see versification).
		The third line of Thomas Nashe's Spring is in pentameter: Cold doth / not sting, / the pret / ty birds / do sing.
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	Meter (poetry)
		This is the form of Catullus 51 (itself a translation of Sappho 31):
		The most frequently encountered line of English verse is the iambic pentameter, in which the norm is five iambic feet per line, though many kinds of substitution are common.
		Stanzas of unrhymed iambic pentameter are commonly known as blank verse.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Meter_(poetry) (2012 words)

	Poetry and Reading Verse
		The dactylic line is also the first line of the two-line "Elegaic Couplet", which embraces the whole output of Ovid, Propertius Tibullus and others.
		The first line is a standard dactylic hexameter, the second line, called a "pentameter" for no especially cogent reason, starts off the same way but comes to an unexpected pause in the middle, often coinciding with some point of surprise or pathos.
		If you have become familiar with the basic dactylic line, and when reading the second line of an elegaic couplet (which is conveniently indented in all printed texts) you expect a break or hiatus toward the middle of the line, you can probably make the verse form out for yourself by ear.
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	Magister White - Latin Meter and Scansion
		In contrast to the formal dactylic hexameter, the iambs which finish the line create a more colloquial feel that invokes imagery of the people rambling about in the city.
		The meter consists of one dactylic hexameter line balanced with a pentameter made up of two sets of dactyls on either side of a diaeresis.
		The dactylic hexameter is the meter of epic, didactic and pastoral poetry.
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	Latin Meter: Iambic
		There are five (pentameter) pairs - the "iambs" - of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.
		As you already know if you have studied the dactylic hexameter, it is possible for a long to be realized as two shorts.
		In the dactylic hexameter, it's very easy to get used to the possibility that a long element can be resolved as two shorts.
	tutor.bestlatin.net /about/meter_iambic.htm (835 words)

	Information on Metrics
		In dactylic hexameter, the fifth foot is normally a dactyl.
		Four types of metrical feet can be found in hendecasyllabics: the dactyl, the spondee, the trochee (a long syllable followed by a short syllable), and the iamb (a short syllable followed by a long syllable).
		The second foot must be a dactyl and the third and fourth feet must be trochees; the fifth foot may be a trochee or a spondee, whereas the first foot may be a trochee, spondee, or iamb.
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	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second.
		The elegiac distich consists of the hexameter followed by the pentameter.
		[1913 Webster] Note: Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter, etc., according to the number of feet in each.
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	Meter (poetry) - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world, as well as love poetry that was sometimes light and cheerful.
		The most frequently encountered line of English verse is the iambic pentameter, in which the metrical norm is five iambic feet per line, though metrical substitution is common and rhythmic variations practically inexhaustible.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect (although see Pale Fire for a non-trivial case).
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Meter_(poetry) (2904 words)

	Meter (poetry) information - Search.com
		Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect (although see Pale Fire for a non-trivial case).
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two pairs of a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
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	Scansion Definitions - The Poetry Corner
		Of all the English verse forms, it is the closest to the natural rhythms of English speech.
		A seven line, iambic pentameter stanza with the rhyme scheme a b a b b c c.
		It consists fo nine lines, in which the first eight are iambic pentameter; the last line is an iambic hexameter (an ALEXANDRINE) rhyming a b a b b c b c c.
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	Glossary poetic terms D
		An example of a dactylic dimeter is The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson.
		The distich is particularly associated with Greek elegiac verse and consists of one line of dactylic hexameter and one line of dactylic pentameter.
		'Higgledy-piggledy' and the fourth is a dactyl and a macron.
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	Annie Finch
		Finch's key insight is that iambic pentameter, which carries such a heavy baggage of patriarchal institutions in education and the high tradition of English poetic diction, can best be studied at the moment of early free verse in English, when the grip of pentameter on verse was becoming unclenched.
		But the relation between pentameter and dactyl is not merely situational or relational in Whitman, because as a classical meter the dactylic form also bears historical associations to "high" poetic genres.
		Both dactylic and iambic rhythms are set against the prosaic matrix of Whitman's work, and both bear double, historically situated connotations when they appear in that work.
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	Meter (poetry) at AllExperts
		Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect (although see Pale Fire for a non-trivial case).
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two pairs of a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
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	Greek Meter 101 (Part I) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		#348 is an iambic hexameter with a dactyl in the third and a spondee in the fifth foot.
		's first four feet are either dactyls or spondees, the fifth usually a dactyl, and the sixth either a spondee or a trochee (which by the line-end pause is effectively a spondee).
		To avoid unpoetic symmetry in the two halves of the line, a caesura is used after either the first or (in a dactyl) second syllable of the third foot, or after the first syllable of the fourth foot.
	pages.zdnet.com /commentateur/greek_meter_101.htm (2114 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.01.30
		As one might expect, the section on dactylic verse (15) is dominated by the hexameter.
		As far as the metrical scheme of the hexameter is concerned, it would perhaps have been more precise to include the (even though rarely employed) possibility of replacing the dactyl with a spondee in the fifth foot, which is only mentioned in the explanatory text, instead of representing it as purely dactylic.
		Some brief remarks on the pentameter, the elegiac distichon and the acatalectic tetrameter as representatives of other dactylic verse-types conclude this generally successful chapter.
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	hexameter hexameter.com
		The Hexameter and Pentameter in the M. SHAPIR THE HEXAMETER AND PENTAMETER IN THE POETRY OF KATENIN On the Formal and Semantic Derivation of Versification Metres
		Causation Symptomatoly in Homoeopathy Boenninghausens 7 Rubric Causation and Symptomatology in Homoeopathy is a concise discourse of 5,6,7 of the Organon in relationship to the Baron 7 rubric homoeopathic hexameter.
		The feet are usually dactyls or spondees the last foot is a spondee.
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		Repetition of trochees is trochaic; anapests, anapestic; dactyls, dactylic.
		pentameter tetrameter trimeter Guidelines for critique: ----------------------- The focus for critique in this exercise is simply whether or not the lines did "scan" - were in fact anapestic, and had the right number of feet.
		pentameter tetrameter trimeter Guidelines for critique: ----------------------- The focus for critique in this exercise is simply whether or not the lines did "scan" - were in fact dactylic, and had the right number of feet.
	www.mit.edu /~mbarker/poetry/rhythm.txt (1492 words)

	ACCENTUAL-SYLLABIC HEXAMETER IN ESTONIAN POETRY AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY – THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY
		The aim of the present paper is to analyse the structure of the Estonian accentual-syllabic hexameter of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
		Yet the prosodical shifts in the given material are rather superficial, allowing for the variation of the number of syllables.
		The Estonian accentual-syllabic hexameter is prevailingly dactylic and thus the rhythmics is considerably different from that of ancient hexameter, yielding to the natural rhythmic impulse of the Estonian language.
	www.kirj.ee /trames/tr-ab-5-1-05.htm (222 words)

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