21. In using hexameters for his verse, Klopstock had abandoned the traditional Alexandrines. 22. He condensed Homer's six-beat hexameters into five-beat pentameters. 23. Homer s hexameters contain a far higher proportion of dactyls than later hexameter poetry. 24. Homer s hexameters contain a far higher proportion of dactyls than later hexameter poetry. 25. For example, the epics of Homer and Vergil are written in dactylic hexameter . 26. The epics were composed in dactylic hexameter verse. 27. Burke created the pentad by combining several of the categories in the scholastic hexameter . 28. He made this stylised hexameter for dramatic effect. 29. Horace also wrote verses in dactylic hexameter , employing a conversational and epistolary style. 30. His works were composed in elegant and serious hexameter verses and caustic iambic poetry.
