| 21. | In using hexameters for his verse, Klopstock had abandoned the traditional Alexandrines.
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| 22. | He condensed Homer's six-beat hexameters into five-beat pentameters.
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| 23. | Homer s hexameters contain a far higher proportion of dactyls than later hexameter poetry.
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| 24. | Homer s hexameters contain a far higher proportion of dactyls than later hexameter poetry.
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| 25. | For example, the epics of Homer and Vergil are written in dactylic hexameter.
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| 26. | The epics were composed in dactylic hexameter verse.
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| 27. | Burke created the pentad by combining several of the categories in the scholastic hexameter.
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| 28. | He made this stylised hexameter for dramatic effect.
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| 29. | Horace also wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, employing a conversational and epistolary style.
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| 30. | His works were composed in elegant and serious hexameter verses and caustic iambic poetry.
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