I had toyed with writing a response in hexameter verse, but that would have been pushing it, no?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III)] Reference

"Evangeline" is written in what is called hexameter, having six accents to the line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study] Reference

In vi. 65 he apologizes for using the pure hexameter, which is found only four times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

The poems of Homer have the most perfect metre, the hexameter, which is also called heroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

It may be a hard saying to the countrymen of Longfellow, but the truth is that the hexameter is a metrical monster in our English speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference

Page ments in English hexameter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse's Tragedy] Reference

Josephus describes the Hebrew poets as writing in "hexameter".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénault's "Abrégé.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

Northamptonshire, is inscribed the following hexameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851] Reference

= Like Ovid, Montanus wrote both elegiac and hexameter verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Can his iambic pentameter compete with her dactylic hexameter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Books of hexameter verse: probably a sixth Book has been lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

This poem, in 645 hexameter lines, is attributed to Virgil in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Southey had thought fit to eulogize George III. in hexameter verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Query, By what Socinian writer are these two hexameter verses used?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850] Reference

"Poetria nova" was the name assigned to the hexameter poem commencing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850] Reference

A full period, then, consists of four divisions, like hexameter verses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

This reply the prophetess gave them in hexameter verses, and it ran thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Herodotus] Reference

It gives us the most finished specimen of the Latin hexameter which we have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

After the hexameter the most frequently imitated metre is the Sapphic strophe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

Dactylic lines are not common except in the imitations of the classical hexameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

A Latin hexameter from the pen of Turgot became the well-known legend of this medal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

His brief 'Andromeda' is one of the best English poems in the classical dactylic hexameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

As for the meter, the heroic measure has proved its fitness by hexameter test of experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetics] Reference

English hexameter was still another pet detestation which Landor nursed with great volubility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

Newenham, Lincolnshire, which substitutes for the concluding verse a hexameter of similar import.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Customs of Old England] Reference

Pedo, the recipient of the tenth epistle, was known as a writer of hexameter verse and of epigram.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Actual experiment and public taste have declared their verdict against hexameter verse in English.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Kingsley's "Andromeda" -- it is really a splendid rhythmical piece of hexameter -- and some of his Life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to His Friends] Reference

This Anthem has six hexameter lines followed by a Verse and Respond, and the Collect which we now use for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference

The action of the poem is chiefly carried on at the Bothie, the situation of which is thus described (in hexameter verse).    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference