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dactylic
Part of speech: AdjectiveRelating to or consisting of dactyls.
Usage examples "dactylic":- The line, " Softly the breezes descend in the valley," is dactylic tetrameter, though the last foot is a trochee. - "Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism", F. V. N. Painter.
- 67. What are the several measures of dactylic verse? - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.
- When the feet are accented on the first syllable- as in trochaic or dactylic verse- a syllable may be omitted from the end of a line as in the second and fourth below. - "Composition-Rhetoric", Stratton D. Brooks.