dactylic in English

adjective
1
of or using dactyls.
dactylic rhythm
noun
1
dactylic verse.
He thereby lends some countenance to Saintsbury's later mantra that what passes for English dactylics are in fact ‘tipped-up’ hypermetric anapests.

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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.