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countable and uncountable, plural hexameters
(countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet. quotations examples
The date of composition is pretty certainly about 1590, a date suggested by the burlesque hexameters of Huanebango.
1908, Walter Wilson Greg, “[Preface]”, in G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wives Tale, 1595, [Oxford, Oxfordshire]: […] [F]or the Malone Society by Horace Hart […], at the Oxford University Press, published 1965, page vi
(uncountable) A poetic metre in which each line has six feet. examples