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

Restraining Paddy and Bottles, who each wished to reply in heroic verse to this sally, I stepped to the door.

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It is used in heroic verse only when we take the liberty to add a short syllable to a line.

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This work is therefore a complete corpus of Gaelic heroic verse.

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Ovid now produced a work of greater compass, the Metamorphoses, in fifteen Books of heroic verse.

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The Epistles, which are in heroic verse, have striking passages, and the notes are of a like incisive character.

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