| His poems written in Latin hexameter followed the classical models of poetry. |
| The argument in favor of hexameter is thus analogous to Coleridge's endeavor to free himself from syllabic prosody in Christabel. |
| In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter. |
| Some people think the hexameter line comes from the lyric, from rhythmic phrases put together, usually three phrases in a line. |
| Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola. |
| The penultimate stanza is the only stanza that uses the Spenserian hexameter for its last line. |
