sexameter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The poem which is written in sexameters, is an invocation to the Redeemer and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in it the pope solemnly bids farewell to all Christians."
- "Our temptation was to treat the subject in an appropriate lyric manner, but Mr. Orpheus Nutt claimed first chance, and is now working on an ode of welcome, in dactylic sexameters."
- "I put my whole soul into the work and almost lived on quartameters, pentameters, sexameters, etc."
- "Hernandez's structure - iambic sexameter in the first, second, fourth, sixth lines, and iambic tetrameter in the third and fifth lines - may be successful for descriptive purposes, but it is hardly successful in dramatic passages."
- "Composed by Wakeham for the tenth number of the “Winter Chronicle,” on Monday 3 January 1820, these seven octets of cross-rhymed anapestic sexameters cannot fail to bring to mind such traditional tunes as “Sweet Betsy from Clyde,” (and, perhaps for the modern reader, such traditional themes as the “Northwest Passage,” as composed and sung by the late Stan Rogers)."
- "Neither of us had ever tasted four-star French cuisine, which he explained was just as much a part of French culture as any statue in the Louvre and any old play in five acts and rhymed iambic sexameter."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: sexa