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

There were monkeypods, “planted as seedlings no taller than chives,” as Mr. Merwin wrote, in impeccable dactylic tetrameter, in an essay in “What Is a Garden?,” which centers on his work in Hawaii.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 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

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

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017

In ancient literature, the heroic verse, ἡρωικὸν μέτρον, was synonymous with the dactylic hexameter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various