A line of verse or poetry consisting of six metrical feet, particularly in classical Greek and Latin poetry.
From Greek ex- (six) + meter (measure, foot). This is a technical term from prosody (the study of poetic meter) describing a specific rhythmic pattern.
Greek and Latin poets were obsessed with mathematical precision in verse—an exameter has exactly six feet like clockwork, and ancient poets would compose entire epics following these rigid patterns, making poetry almost like musical composition!
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