Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In prosody, constituting or equivalent to a dactyl; pertaining to or characteristic of a dactyl or dactyls; consisting of dactyls: as, a dactylic foot; a dactylic spondee; dactylic rhythm or meter; dactylic verses.
- noun A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.
- noun plural Meters which consist of a repetition of dactyls or of equivalent feet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls.
- noun A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.
- noun Dactylic meters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or consisting of
dactyls . - adjective of a
dactyl . - noun a dactylic
verse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or consisting of dactyls
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Examples
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While its authorship is often contested, the fact remains that epic poems like The Iliad, written in dactylic hexameters, not only contributed to the evolution of the poetry genre but also to the proliferation of the written word.
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I’d much rather gush to fellow students about how amazing Hart Crane is than practice outputting lines in dactylic tetrameter.
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I’d much rather gush to fellow students about how amazing Hart Crane is than practice outputting lines in dactylic tetrameter.
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I’d much rather gush to fellow students about how amazing Hart Crane is than practice outputting lines in dactylic tetrameter.
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(c) _The third measure_ -- called the dactylic measure -- is formed of a combination of three syllables.
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
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But Seely has to work with the less subtle meters of the nursery rhymes and other poems he parodies, such as dactylic and anapestic.
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"dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language."
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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To be precise, if he had said: “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Hindus and cool Jews” then it would be dactylic hexameter:
Matthew Yglesias » Zionist Organization of America Slams Obama Muslims Mention 2009
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The first line set the dactylic pattern forme: we SAW the mass GRAVE at the MOS-cow ZOO.
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But I hear it as a shifting dactylic/trochaic meter that periodically emerges as a series ofiambs.
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