Dactylic hexameter
What Dactylic hexameter means in Latin A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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A metre in which each foot is a dactyl (long–short–short) or a spondee (long–long), and the two lines need not share the same pattern.
The commonest verse in the unseen paper, with six feet, each either a dactyl (long–short–short) or a spondee (long–long).
Topics that use Dactylic hexameter
- 2c. Content of Unseen Translation (H443/01) (OCR A-Level)
- 2c. Content of Unseen Translation (H443/01) - Learners will be required to: (OCR A-Level)
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