| 21. | The most important Classical meter as defined by the Alexandrian grammarians was the dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homeric poetry.
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| 22. | The ancient elegiac couplet form of the Greeks and Romans contained a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of pentameter.
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| 23. | The "'metre "'of most poems is the dodecasyllable, but for some Christopher uses the dactylic hexameter.
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| 24. | Dactylic hexameter depends on the sequence of long and short ( or dactyl ) or long & ndash; long ( spondee ).
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| 25. | Today, the modern Latin poets who use the dactylic hexameter are generally as faithful to Virgil as Rome's Silver Age poets.
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| 26. | If the feet are primarily " dactyls " and there are six to a line, then it is a dactylic hexameter.
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| 27. | The poem is divided into twelve books in imitation of Virgil's " Aeneid " and is composed in dactylic hexameter.
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| 28. | The first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, took the form of dactylic hexameters, as did many works of pre-Socratic philosophy.
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| 29. | The two half-lines are each called a hemiepes ( half-epic ), as they resemble half a line of epic dactylic hexameter.
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| 30. | Horace was a contemporary of Virgil and, like the epic poet, he wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, but in a conversational and epistolary style.
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