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Also called:
heroic metre or heroic line
Related Topics:
heroic poetry
verse
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heroic verse

prosody
Also known as: heroic line, heroic metre

heroic verse, the verse form in which the heroic poetry of a particular language is, or according to critical opinion should be, composed. In classical poetry this was dactylic hexameter, in French the alexandrine, in Italian the hendecasyllabic line, and in English iambic pentameter.