The argument in favor of hexameter is thus analogous to Coleridge's endeavor to free himself from syllabic prosody in Christabel. |
Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola. |
For Schlegel, the feet of the hexameter must be of equal length, containing either one long and two short syllables or two long ones. |
Zhukov uses rhyme-linked couplets in which the initial lines are in iambic hexameter and the closing lines are in iambic octameter. |
His poems written in Latin hexameter followed the classical models of poetry. |
His name was given to a common type of hexameter with internal rhyme, though not before the 17th century. |