He wrote in a language that is already archaic in the eighth century BC and even more at the time of fixing the text, in the sixth century BC; he is associated with the use of the dactylic hexameter.

Hark, good gentles, and gather ye round—for what I witnessed upon the boards of the Carrollwood Cultural Center was no mere ghost story, but a revel in verse, a haunting in hexameter ...

The meter judders with quiet unease, hexameter reduced to pentameter (note the roughness of the imperfect stress on the rhyme “back”/“kayak”), compressed at last to the final lines of tetrameter. This ...

For example, I’ll be pouring Planeta Didacus from Sicily and Ovid Hexameter from Napa Valley.” Frankly it is a can’t-miss seminar. And I always look forward to attending the presentations hosted by ...

This challenge drew a large, accomplished entry which was both amusing and informative. Alex Steelsmith’s double dactylic submission was a strong contender for a place in the winning line-up, as were ...

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Formscan - FINAL DRAMA has yet to run a bad race in his career, finishing a fair third when making his first start at this track last time, and he looks the one to beat. Gimme Gimme and Seven ...