| Re: Help in the use of Meter
Dactylic hexameter. Also used by Virgil and the other Latin epic poets. I have experimented with it... but it really seems inappropriate for english. (I feel it becomes tooo drawn out and a little lengthy. Longfellow used it in Evangeline).
Thanks for advice
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