Hexameter

Hexameter verse is employed for all the _Silvae_ except six.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

A Monk of St. _Albans_ made this Hexameter allusively to his Name:

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

(Frolicksome though I have been) have I tried on Hexameter, knowing

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various

Higgins_, was one who imitated _Latine_ measure in _English_ Verse, writing a Pastoral, called _the Countess of_ Pembroke's _Ivy-church_, and some other things in Hexameter, some also in Hexameter and

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

The classes will be required to pay scrupulous attention to the rules of Prosody, that they may, at an early period, be able with ease, to scan Hexameter verse; and thus habituate themselves to correct pronunciation.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

It consists of seven members, who were examined on the English, Latin and Greek Grammars, Virgil's Aeneid, Scanning Hexameter

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

This made Tacitus, in the very first line of his Story, fall upon a verse; and Cicero, the worst of Poets, but declaiming for a Poet, falls in the very first sentence upon a perfect Hexameter.

The Second Part 1909

In Weimar und in Jena macht man Hexameter wie der;

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

In Weimar und in Jena macht man Hexameter wie der;

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

It will be observed that I have slightly changed the length and the rhythm of the old Hexameter line, but it is still Hexameter, and, I think, improved.

Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878