dactylic

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That script is three lines of verse, two in dactylic hexameter, the metre of epic verse.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2019

As such, it’s particularly difficult to adapt to dactylic hexameter, the waltzlike, oom-pah-pah meter of epic poetry, which the Romans inherited from the Greeks.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Homer composed the “Odyssey” in dactylic hexameter, the six-beat meter that gives the poem its elevated oom-pah-pah, oom-pah-pah cadence.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2017

More specifically, a grammatically- and rhythmically-correct line of dactylic hexameter, the kind used by Virgil and Ovid.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017

Miurus, mī-ū′rus, n. a dactylic hexameter with short penultimate syllable.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various