NOUN
- a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
How To Use heroic verse In A Sentence
- His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
- The story or a part of it is told by a fellow-seaman of Columbus, who had turned "eremite" in his old age, and though the narrative itself is in heroic verse, the prologue and epilogue, as they may be termed, are in The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3
- His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
- The music of “Sleep On!” is very sweet, and I have never seen heroic verse in which the rhyme was less obtrusive or the rhythm more diffluent. Authors and Friends
