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Hexameter and Pentameter
An alternate metre; often called elegiac verse. Hexameter as
described below. Pentameter verse is divided into two parts, each of
which ends with an extra long syllable. The former half consists of two
metres, dactyls or spondees; the latter half must be two dactyls. The
following is a rhyming specimen in English:
Would you be happy an hour, dine well; for a day, tend a wedding;
If for a week, buy a house; if for a month, wed a spouse;
Would you be happy six months, buy a horse; if for twelve, start a carriage;
Happiness long as you live, only contentment can give.
E. C. B.
This metre might be introduced, and would suit epigrams and short
poems.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Hexameter and Pentameter from Infoplease:
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