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Heroic verse   /hɪrˈoʊɪk vərs/   Listen
Heroic verse

noun
1.
A verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter.  Synonyms: heroic, heroic meter.





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"Heroic verse" Quotes from Famous Books



... had also their Pindars and their Tyrteuses, bards exercising their talent to sing in heroic verse the deeds of great men, and to inculcate in the people the love of glory."—Latour d'Auvergne, Gallic ...
— The Brass Bell - or, The Chariot of Death • Eugene Sue


Words linked to "Heroic verse" :   heroic meter, heroic poem, heroic, epic, epic poem, epos


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