Hexameter

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Hexameter, in poetry, means a line or lines of verse consisting of six metrical feet.

Iambic hexameter, the English 'Alexandrine' (named for the 12-syllable line in French poetry), is used in English poetry, though normally in conjunction with other lines. Alternating with lines of iambic hexameter, it was used to form poulter's measure.

As the concluding line to a nine-line stanza, following eight lines of iambic pentameter, it was used to form a Spenserian stanza.

A true Alexandrine requires a caesura or break (usually indicated by punctuation) at the exact half-way point

A line of verse written in that meter is sonically indistinguishable from two lines of iambic trimeter.

Number of feet per line

 * Monometer - one
 * Dimeter - two
 * Trimeter - three
 * Tetrameter - four
 * Pentameter - five
 * Hexameter - six
 * Heptameter - seven