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The hexameter has never enjoyed a similar popularity in English, where the standard metre is Iambic Pentameter ; however, various English poems have been written in hexameter over the centuries. There are numerous examples of Iambic hexameter from the 16th century and a few from the 17th; the most prominent of these is Michael Drayton 's ''Poly-Olbion'' ( 1612 ) in hexameter couplets. An example from Drayton: :Nor any other wold like Cotswold ever sped, :So rich and fair a vale in fortuning to wed. In the 17th century the iambic hexameter, or Alexandrine , was used as a substitution in the Heroic Couplet , and as one of the types of permissible lines in lyrical stanzas and the Pindaric odes of Cowley and Dryden . Several attempts were made in the 19th century to naturalise the Dactylic Hexameter to English, by Longfellow , Arthur Hugh Clough and others, none of them particularly successful. Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote many of his poems in six foot iambic and Sprung Rhythm lines. In the 20th century a loose ballad-like six-foot line with a strong medial pause was used by Yeats . The iambic six-foot line has also been used occasionally, and an accentual six-foot line has been used by translators from the Latin and many poets. ''See also'': Dactylic Hexameter EXTERNAL LINKS
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