dactylic in English
dactylic rhythm
He thereby lends some countenance to Saintsbury's later mantra that what passes for English dactylics are in fact ‘tipped-up’ hypermetric anapests.
Use "dactylic" in a sentence
1. Dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation.
2. Besides these, which are called dactylic Alcaics, there is another, simply
3. A "dactylic" line may feature dactyls, Anapests, or spondees, because these are all equal (L + s + s)
4. Besides these, which are called dactylic Alcaics, there is another, simply styled Alcaic, consisting of an epitrite, two
5. Alcaic A four-line stanza invented by the Classical Greek poet Alcaeus that employs a specific syllabic count per line and a predominantly dactylic meter
6. See Anapaest ‘But the repetition of ‘call to me’ in its dactylic form makes a continuous Anapaestic reading impossible, and the stress dactyls in the following lines makes it clearly inappropriate.’
7. Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets , with two exceptions: his lost Medea , whose two fragments are in iambic trimeter and anapest s, respectively, and his great Metamorphoses, which he wrote in dactylic hexameter , the meter of Virgil 's Aeneid and Homer 's epics.