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hexameter

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Recent Examples of hexameter Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables. — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026 Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter. — William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025 At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters. — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter. — Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020 Sarah Ruden took upon herself the Herculean task of translating Virgil line-by-line, in iambic pentameter, the normative rhythm of English verse, as dactylic hexameter is of ancient epic. — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017 More specifically, a grammatically- and rhythmically-correct line of dactylic hexameter, the kind used by Virgil and Ovid. — Leah Henrickson, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017

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This task — writing a poem about a worm in anapestic tetrameter, a very specific and satisfyingly arcane poetic meter — is a challenging one, but ChatGPT was the clear winner, followed by a distant grouping of Bing then Bard.

— James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023

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The majority of Senese-Grossberg’s script has the actors speaking in contemporary language, though there are performance sequences spoken in the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare.

— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
But with Shakespeare, whose characters felt so familiar inside rules of prose and iambic pentameter, Ming-Trent found a poetry partner to hep him through life’s brutalities.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026

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Troop movements over the past couple of weeks indicate the group is concentrating on seizing the southwestern highlands, which could then open the way for a push toward the government’s capital, Aden.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
Fifteen years later, the niche local broadcast on K-Beach Radio has ballooned into a cultural movement that extends far behind his alma mater’s campus.

— Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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