dactylic meter. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : dactylic hexameter; a dactylic line. From Dictionary.com.
I’d much rather gush to fellow students about how amazing Hart Crane is than practice outputting lines in dactylic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [Why I write poetry | The Long Write] Reference
But Seely has to work with the less subtle meters of the nursery rhymes and other poems he parodies, such as dactylic and anapestic. From Wordnik.com. [2007 June 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
An epic poem in dactylic meter. From Wordnik.com. [One of Those Really Typical Blogs : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
"dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language.". From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
Can his iambic pentameter compete with her dactylic hexameter?. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The bridge is less easy to pin down, moving from iambic to trochaic to dactylic rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Ramble On Rose"] Reference
The first line set the dactylic pattern forme: we SAW the mass GRAVE at the MOS-cow ZOO. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
His brief 'Andromeda' is one of the best English poems in the classical dactylic hexameter. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
So begins the galloping dactylic excitement of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride.". From Wordnik.com. [Not Only an American Patriot but a Craftsman] Reference
But I hear it as a shifting dactylic/trochaic meter that periodically emerges as a series ofiambs. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
Q. Ennius wrote in many genres and produced the national epic, the Annales, in a Greek meter (dactylic hexameter). From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Society, and Culture] Reference
It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
I just finished teaching dactylic, anapestic, iambic, and trochaic meter to a diverse group of poets at Stonecoast. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: What Is the State of American Poetry? Leading American Poets Speak] Reference
Page 18 Lowdy speaks in a different verse, dactylic, when she say: “Fleas in the pottage bowl, / Fleas the bread.”. From Wordnik.com. [2008 January « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Miss Tapley's ruler beating out Homer's dactylic hexameters in seventh grade was curtains for my childhood love of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Rosen: Madoff and Miracles: How I Lost My Life's Savings and a Poem Saved My Life] Reference
Tennyson's still more familiar Charge of the Light Brigade (which is, however, only partly dactylic) are good illustrations. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
First they will help you to be pleasant in company, then to know what is meant by enhoplian rhythm and what by the dactylic. From Wordnik.com. [The Clouds] Reference
The storm centre of all classical adaptations has been the dactylic hexameter, the standard measure of Greek and Latin narrative poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Zionist Organization of America Slams Obama Muslims Mention] Reference
The first thing I noticed about Brian Ruckley was his word use-it immediately reminded me of Latin poetry without the dactylic hexameter. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Not Taken · Winter is Coming.] Reference
It will be noted that I have here tried my hand at my favourite measure, the dactylic. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Hear what a motion, what a tumult, is given by the dactylic close to each of the introductory lines!. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Ennius compelled the intractable forms of Latin speech to accommodate themselves to the dactylic rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
By this means he gave a dactylic direction to Latin prosody which it afterwards, though only slightly, extended. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
"But he lived with a lot of wild mates, and they never would let him be good"; and dactylic as "triple falling". From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
For example, "The Merchant of Venice" is in iambic pentameter, and "The Courtship of Miles Standish" is in dactylic hexameter. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
'I can never get words for it in English,' he said again, half speaking with his parted lips; 'it's too dactylic in rhythm for. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
The poem next to my dactylic Introduction was a dramatic lyric, partly blank verse and partly rhymed choruses, in the Swinburne manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
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