6 example sentences using hexameter.
Hexameter used in a sentence
Hexameter in a sentence as a noun
I wrote a script once to read in dactylic hexameter and automatically scan it.
I had an on-paper program to do dactylic hexameter.
This is an important style choice because dactylic hexameter was a great choice for poets in the ancient Greek language, but a poor choice in English.
First, so I can show up in the 3rd or 4th installment of a future civilization's video game franchise as an "Ancient One" and speak in hexameter.
I'd wager that Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare would be surprised to learn that non-rhyming poetry was ever "in style"though I suppose dactylic hexameter, terza rima, and sonnets are a bit end-rhyme-heavy.
Though, if by any chance you have reached a sufficient mastery of English prosody to understand the iambic pentameter, the dactylic hexameter really isn't such a stretch, notwithstanding one being based on stress and the other weight.
Hexameter definitions
a verse line having six metrical feet