What does heroic meter mean?

heroic meter means "a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter".

What is another word for heroic meter?

Close synonyms include heroic verse, heroic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heroic meter a common word?

heroic meter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Heroic meter — meaning and 2 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
Synonymsheroic verse heroic
Broaderepic poem

Questions about heroic meter

What does heroic meter mean?: heroic meter means "a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter".
What is another word for heroic meter?: Close synonyms include heroic verse, heroic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is heroic meter a common word?

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