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Meaning of 'hexameter' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hexameter [ a.]
- Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
2 . Hexameter [ n.]
- A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.

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