heroic verse

noun

1. a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is

   Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!

heroic verse

noun

1. prosody a type of verse suitable for epic or heroic subjects, such as the classical hexameter, the French Alexandrine, or the English iambic pentameter

Word History and Origins

Origin of heroic verse¹

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

If that were the case, then Paradise Lost would be written in heroic verse, which is not true.

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But no one before Horace had succeeded in applying the metre of heroic verse to the uses of common life.

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To an edition of Delia and Rosamond, in 1594, was added the tragedy of Cleopatra, a severe study in the manner of the ancients, in alternately rhyming heroic verse, diversified by stiff choral interludes.

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Campion and Atkinson have rendered a part of it into English heroic verse.

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These long lines had been commonly employed in Italy during the thirteenth century, before the heroic verse of eleven syllables obtained ascendancy.

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