BRANDON CURDIE

Hexameter meter

The meter

Quantitative Qualitative

The Hexameter

Pyrrhus

Cum sanguine serpit et nervis mentula

"When the blood creeps and the nerves prick."

Iamb

Mala soluta navis exit alite   ferens olentem Mevium.ut horridis utrumque verberes latus,   Auster, memento fluctibus

Trochee

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble

-Shakespeare

Tribrach

He and me among a group of trees walk

Dactyl

“Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus’ son Achilles”-Homer

Amphibrach

I think I / will call it / the Circus / McGurkus