Hexameter

/hˈɛksɐmˌiːtɐ/

/hˈɛksɐmˌiːɾɚ/

Hexameter

a metrical line of poetry consisting of six feet

Examples

1. Like most classical French playwrights, Racine wrote in a metrical line called an alexandrine, a twelve-syllable line of iambic hexameter.

2. I don't know whether this a typo or whether his hexameter's caption wasn't very good, war has been a process in the upward march of mankind.

3. And so if you make two copies of the two sided one, then you have to have the one sided hexameter, exactly 19 of those.

4. By the way, that was an example of dactylic hexameter, just like you see in epic poems.