31. All of the poems are in dactylic hexameter . 32. "My favorite cards ? " says this octogenarian entrepreneur of sentimental hexameter . 33. He adopted Greek dactylic hexameter , which became the standard verse form for Roman epics. 34. Such strange words in difficult hexameter scansion, are by no means easy to memorise. 35. Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC describes the Pythia speaking in dactylic hexameters . 36. Metrically, the motto is dactylic hexameter . 37. His preference was for the hexameter form. 38. The riddles themselves, written in tercets of dactylic hexameters , are of elegant Latinity. 39. A hexameter line contains six metrical feet while a pentameter line contains five metrical feet. 40. They comprise 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter verse and are traditionally attributed to Pythagoras.
