I have no idea what the hell that means. Explain it to me as if I was an audience member of The View.
If that is even possible.
It’s a poetic form, like the limerick is a different poetic form. That’s all you need to know.
Here’s the Wiki page. Warning: You don’t want to know. Seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter
Okay... 'derp derp derp, duh... derp derp duh.
I hope that's clear enough.
“Seriously, it is over 12,000 lines of dactylic hexameter
I have no idea what the hell that means. Explain it to me as if I was an audience member of The View. If that is even possible.”
Lemme hep:
“Dactylic hexameter is a famous poetic rhythm with six rhythm groups (feet) per line, famous for use in old Greek and Latin epic poems like the Iliad. Each line has six parts: the first four can be dactyls (one long sound and two short sounds) or spondees (two long sounds), the fifth is usually a dactyl, and the last is a short two-sound block.”
You’re welcome.
In simple terms
Dactylic means the rhythm follows a pattern of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
Hexameter means each line has six metrical feet.
Because of this structure, The Odyssey sounds more like formal verse than prose.