0 a line in poetry that has six feet (= units containing one strong syllable and one or two weaker ones), or the rhythm of poetry that has this pattern:
It turns out that reciting poetry - especially verse like Homer's that follows a specific rhythm called hexameter - makes an excellent breathing exercise.
Hexameter is a literary and poetic form consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad.
This was a translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh rendered literally into English hexameters.
