heroic verse

American  

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!

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heroic verse British  

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

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Etymology

Origin of heroic verse

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

Of course, Lipsyte doesn’t provide a single word of of this life-changing, ruthless, heroic verse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2019

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

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas

After that journey the heroic verse appears almost exclusively as his poetic instrument....

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

“The Battle of Aughrim,” however, because it was written in heroic verse, became so popular that it was rehearsed at almost every Irish hearth, both 132 Catholic and Protestant, in the north.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

Whenever his muse plunges into the long measure of heroic verse, she is drowned in no Heliconian stream.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac