- syllable). An
example of
dactylic meter is the
first line of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem
Evangeline (1847),
which is in
dactylic hexameter: This is...
-
poetry in both languages, the
elegiac couplet being a
dactylic hexameter line
paired with a
dactylic pentameter line. This form of
verse was used for love...
- Look up
dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dactyl may
refer to:
Dactyl (mythology), a
legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a
metrical unit of verse...
- Pope
Gregory I, in double-
dactylic rhyme, Oxford:
Oxbow Books, ISBN 1842171119
Catalyst Library Alex Chaffee. "Double
Dactyls".
Archived from the original...
- (243) Ida I
Dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til) is a tiny
asteroid moon (1 mile, or 1.6 km, in diameter) that
orbits asteroid 243 Ida. It was
imaged by the Galileo...
- In Gr**** mythology, the
Dactyls or
Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from
Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the
archaic mythical race of male beings...
-
Dactylic tetrameter is a
metre in poetry. It
refers to a line
consisting of four
dactylic feet. "Tetrameter"
simply means four
poetic feet. Each foot...
- The
dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in
classical Gr**** and
Latin poetry,
follows a
dactylic hexameter to make up an
elegiac couplet. It consists...
-
Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated with the
title Dactylic metre. If an internal...
- distich"). He also
wrote dactylic hexameters in
conversational and
epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used
dactylic hexameters for both light...
