Of course the perfect samples of heroic verse, of famous songs and stories woven into an epic poem, are to be found in Homer.
There is abundant proof that the English folk can display as much heroism as ever men did; but we may look in vain for the poet who knows how to commemorate their valour and patriotic self-sacrifice in heroic verse.
Heroic verse, see Pentameter Heterogeneous terms, in general, two such not to be connected by a conjunc.
The Silvae is a collection of poems almost entirely in heroic verse, divided into five books, and for the most part written extempore.
He was followed some time after by Ennius, who, besides dramatic and other compositions, (60) wrote the annals of the Roman Republic in heroic verse.
To this End serves the poetical and figurative Expression, and the Majesty of Heroic Verse.
This Kind of Verse is so peculiar to Epic, that when it is us'd upon other Occasions, it is commonly call'd Heroic Verse.
Whenever his muse plunges into the long measure of heroic verse, she is drowned in no Heliconian stream.
The State of Innocence; or the Fall of Man, an Opera, written in heroic verse, and printed in 4to.
Charles the VIIIth King of France, or the Invasion of Naples by the French; this play is written in heroic verse.
This tragedy is written in heroic verse; the plot from Justin, lib.
The treble rhyme is very seldom used, and ought wholly to be exploded from serious subjects; for it has a certain flatness unworthy the gravity required in heroic verse.
Those of twelve and fourteen syllables are frequently inserted in our poems in heroic verse, and when rightly made use of, carry a peculiar grace with them.
How characteristic of the Gaul the adoption and use of such a sing-song form of heroic verse!
It will be observed that while Shakspere's heroic verse is usually fairly regular, with not very many run-on lines, it yet differs in quality from that of satires.
After Lyly's The Maid's Metamorphosis, entirely written in heroic verse, this metre was chiefly employed by Shakespeare and his contemporaries for prologues and epilogues.
In the fourteenth century the =heroic verse= was added to these Middle English metres; a rhyming iambic line of five feet, formed after the model of the French line of ten syllables, e.
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