hexameter has definitions from the fields of linguistics,prosody,verse,writing
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[ noun ] (linguistics,prosody,verse,writing) a verse line having six metrical feet

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(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

At_the_least , however , one may conclude that Geometric potters sensed a logical order ; their principles of composition stand very close to those which appear in the Homeric epics and the hexameter line .

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verse

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