So far the whole of the poetry attributed to Virgil is in the single form of hexameter verse, to the perfecting of which his whole life was devoted.
But he had himself, as a young man, followed the fashion, and translated the Phaenomena of Aratus into wonderfully polished and melodious hexameter verse.
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of pieces, some of them very short, in hexameter verse.
The so-called Sibylline Oracles, in hexameter verse, range in date from about 170 B.
By an "epic" poem the Greeks meant a narrative of heroic action in hexameter verse.
In Winona I have "tried my hand" on Hexameter verse.
The pronunciation is easy in a simple movement of alternate long and short syllables; but would be perplexing and unpleasant in the diversified movement of Hexameter verse.
The +Astronomica+ in five Books of hexameter verse.
The +De Rerum Natura+, a didactic poem in hexameter verse in six Books.
The only work of Lucretius is a didactic poem of six books, in hexameter verse, On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura), in which he expounds the doctrines of Epicurus.
Ennius therefore gave up the native Italian metre and wrote his epic in hexameter verse in imitation of Homer.
The second epithalamium, in hexameter verse, was apparently composed for no special occasion.
But from Lucilius onwards, Satire, accurately so called, was always treated in hexameter verse.
With the Georgics they are ranked as the most perfect examples of the modulation of hexameter verse.
There the pentameter answers to the second half of Virgil's hexameter verse, and rings the changes on the line that has preceded in a very similar way.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hexameter verse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
