heroic verse

noun

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!

heroic verse

prosody a type of verse suitable for epic or heroic subjects, such as the classical hexameter, the French Alexandrine, or the English iambic pentameter

First recorded in 1610–20

Restraining Paddy and Bottles, who each wished to reply in heroic verse to this sally, I stepped to the door.

It is used in heroic verse only when we take the liberty to add a short syllable to a line.

This work is therefore a complete corpus of Gaelic heroic verse.

Ovid now produced a work of greater compass, the Metamorphoses, in fifteen Books of heroic verse.

The Epistles, which are in heroic verse, have striking passages, and the notes are of a like incisive character.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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