Elegiac meter was considered alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter. An elegiac couplet is a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. Ancient Greek and Latin poems were written in dactylic hexameter. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics. The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Horace also wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, employing a conversational and epistolary style. It contains eight legends written in dactylic hexameter. Metrically, the motto is dactylic hexameter. Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. The poem consists of six untitled books, in dactylic hexameter. All of the poems are in dactylic hexameter. The second and third lines are in dactylic hexameter.