heroic verse

American  

noun

1. a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is

   Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!

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heroic verse British  

noun

1. prosody a type of verse suitable for epic or heroic subjects, such as the classical hexameter, the French Alexandrine, or the English iambic pentameter

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Etymology

Origin of heroic verse

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

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heroic verse

Of course, Lipsyte doesn’t provide a single word of of this life-changing, ruthless, heroic verse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2019

It is important to insist that it is the couplet, not the single line, which constitutes heroic verse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

Enjambement, 19: avoidance of in heroic verse, 187, 202; in Chaucer, 177; in couplets of the romantic poets, 208-212; in Milton, 233; in Shakspere's verse, 223.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

These long lines had been commonly employed in Italy during the thirteenth century, before the heroic verse of eleven syllables obtained ascendancy.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

Bro. to F. B. Author Bosworth Field, a poem in heroic verse.

From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Adams, Oscar Fay