Entertainment / Literature / Hexameter: A line consisting of six metrical feet. Very common in Greek and Latin literature, less common in English. See meter.
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Pythiambic: A classical greek and latin metrical form, dactylic hexameter and iambic trimeter couplets. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Distich: Two lines related to one another. A major greek and latin metre is the elegiac distich, a pair of dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Dactyl: A three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses. Examples of words in English that naturally constitute dactyls include strawberry, carefully, changeable, merrily, mannequin, MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Elegy: In classical Greco-Roman literature, 'elegy' refers to any poem written in elegiac meter (alternating hexameter and pentameter lines). More broadly, elegy came to mean any poem dealing with the subjec MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Distych: The technical term for a two-line group in which a pair of metrical lines of different lengths together compose or express a complete idea (Wheeler 38). In Greek elegies, these distichs are usually rh MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Crossed Rhyme: In long couplets, especially hexameter lines, sufficient room in the line allows a poet to use rhymes in the middle of the line as well as at the end of each line. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine' ill MORE