hexametric

• a word derived from hexameter.
  hexameter

  noun

  a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.

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hexametric

I notice that the reviewers have been a little shy of these hexametric efforts.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 by Various

It is unfortunately impossible to trace the plan of the poem, which presumably detailed the adventures of this unheroic character: the metre used was a curious mixture of hexametric and iambic lines.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) Evelyn-White

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