DACTYL

Dactyl

A dactyl is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. In accentual verse, often used in English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables—the opposite is the anapaest .

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dactyl

Noun

  1. A poetical foot of three syllables (— ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.


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