hex·am·e·ter /hɛkˈsæmətɚ/
 六步格,六步格的詩(a.)六步格的


 Hex·am·e·ter n.  Gr. & Lat. Pros. A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
    Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman.   --Longfellow.
 Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows,
 Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean.   --Coleridge.


 Hex·am·e·ter, a. Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.

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 hexameter
      n : a verse line having six metrical feet