Hexameter

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Hexameter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Find out how you can help support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth. Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad or the Aeneid. See also: Dactylic hexameter External links Example in English by Coleridge

One of the most famous uses of hexameters, in comparatively modern times, is the opening speech (and, also, several of the subsequent speeches) of 'Helen of Troy'. At her first appearance in the second part of the 'Urfaust' by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832). The hexameter form of these speeches, is usually maintained in accepted translations of this work.