It is written in the stanza of eight, which is their measure for heroic verse.
Campion and Atkinson have rendered a part of it into English heroic verse.
An example inimitable indeed, but which no writer of English heroic verse without rhyme can neglect with impunity.
A similar uniform character is exhibited by the heroic verse of most of the poets of the eighteenth century.
Hence no one has ever composed a poem on a great scale in any other than heroic verse.
The versification is the finest in its style that English literature had yet seen, the perfection of heroic verse.
After Dryden returned to blank verse for dramatic writing, heroic verse ceased to be employed for this purpose.
About the year 330, Juvencus, a Spaniard, wrote the evangelical history in heroic verse.
As the ancient heroes were at least six feet high, this is probably the reason why it is also called an heroic verse.
Restraining Paddy and Bottles, who each wished to reply in heroic verse to this sally, I stepped to the door.