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Definition of Hypermeters
1. hypermeter [n] - See also: hypermeter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypermeters
Literary usage of Hypermeters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"There are eleven of these hypermeters, and the principle is applied in all but
one of them with surprising consistency. Thus PI. 598-618 is composed of 36 ..."
2. A Common-school Grammar of the English Language by Simon Kerl (1870)
"Anapestic hypermeters. la+. Strains entrancing. 2a+. He is gone on the mountain.
3a+. On the knolls the red clover is growing. 4a+. ..."
3. Aristophanes Clouds by Aristophanes (1915)
"... hypermeters (or "systems") — which latter are, in fact, not verses, but long
passages of continuous rhythm written for convenience in lines of a dimeter ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"Alessandro dc' Pazzi, who flourished about the middle of the sixteenth century,
composed whole tragedies and comedies with the first of these hypermeters, ..."
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