单词 | dactylic hexameter |
释义 | > as lemmasdactylic hexameter a. A ‘verse’ or line of six metrical feet; esp. the dactylic hexameter (catalectic), which in the typical form consists of five dactyls and a trochee, or (in Latin poets) more commonly a spondee; for any or all of the first four dactyls spondees may be substituted, but in the fifth foot a spondee is admitted only for special effect.In English and German hexameters, stress is substituted for length in the first syllable of each foot; but it is often sought to combine with this an observance of quantity. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > hexameter hexameterc1386 hexapody1844 c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 91 They ben versified communely Of vj. feet which men clepen Exametron [v.rr. exametroun, examytron, exametrone]. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May Gloss. Emblem, These Emblemes make one whole Hexametre. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 146 These 6. notes, Ut, Re, mi, fa, sol, la..are all comprehended in this Exameter. Vt Relevet Miserum Fatum Solitosque Labores. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 88. ⁋10 We have already tried and rejected the hexameter of the ancients. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Ovidian Elegiac Metre in Wks. (1877) II. 344 In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Note in Poet. Wks. (1893) 614/2 The following verse from the Psalms is a rare instance of a perfect hexameter..in the English language:—Gōd cāme | ūp wĭth ă | shōut : oūr | Lōrd wĭth thĕ | soūnd ŏf ă | trūmpĕt. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 11 Fancy-borne perhaps upon the rise And long roll of the Hexameter. 1869 A. C. Swinburne in S. T. Coleridge Christabel Introd. p. xix The feeble and tuneless form of metre called hexameters in English. < as lemmas |
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