A type of verse used for epic or heroic subjects, such as the hexameter, iambic pentameter, or alexandrine.
英雄诗体（用于史诗或英雄题材的诗体，如六音步诗体，抑扬格五音步诗体，亚历山大格式的诗体）
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What is the burlesque verse in English, is the heroic verse in French.
He believes that iambic pentameter is the most suited to heroic verse, especially in English, and that rhyme should be consistent and regular.
His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
Milton himself likened blank verse to the unrhymed verse of ‘Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin’ and called it ‘English heroic verse without rhyme.’
‘I'm going to climb the highest mountain in Britain,’ I said to myself, envisioning kilted bards perched at the top shouting down lines of heroic verse to the dirt-encrusted hikers toiling below.
Definition of heroic verse in US English:
heroic verse
noun
A type of verse used for epic or heroic subjects, such as the dactylic hexameter, iambic pentameter, or alexandrine. Also called heroic meter.
英雄诗体（用于史诗或英雄题材的诗体，如六音步诗体，抑扬格五音步诗体，亚历山大格式的诗体）
Example sentencesExamples
He believes that iambic pentameter is the most suited to heroic verse, especially in English, and that rhyme should be consistent and regular.
What is the burlesque verse in English, is the heroic verse in French.
‘I'm going to climb the highest mountain in Britain,’ I said to myself, envisioning kilted bards perched at the top shouting down lines of heroic verse to the dirt-encrusted hikers toiling below.
His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
Milton himself likened blank verse to the unrhymed verse of ‘Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin’ and called it ‘English heroic verse without rhyme.’