Written in or composed of six metrical feet per line, especially referring to dactylic hexameter used in classical poetry.
From 'hexameter' (six meters/feet) + '-ical' suffix, derived from Greek 'metron' (measure). The term emerged in classical rhetoric and poetry analysis during the study of ancient Greek and Latin verse.
Dactylic hexameter—the six-foot meter used in Homer's Epics and Virgil's Aeneid—creates a naturally rolling rhythm that mimics the sound of waves or marching feet, and it's so mathematically precise that Virgil could write thousands of lines following the same metrical pattern almost perfectly.
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