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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2019

Milton's style in Paradise Lost is unrhymed heroic verse, which seems to move easily with the thought of the poet.

From Comfort Found in Good Old Books by Fitch, George Hamlin

But no one before Horace had succeeded in applying the metre of heroic verse to the uses of common life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

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

Here it was that for the first time he fully displayed his mastery over heroic verse.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various