- the line are
dactyls; the
sixth a trochee.
Stephen Fry
quotes Robert Browning's poem "The Lost Leader" as an
example of the use of
dactylic metre to great...
- Look up
dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dactyl may
refer to:
Dactyl (mythology), a
legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a
metrical unit of verse...
- In Gr**** mythology, the
Dactyls or
Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from
Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the
archaic mythical race of male beings...
- six feet, each of
which is
either a
dactyl (– u u) or a
spondee (– –). The
first four feet can
either be
dactyls, spondees, or a mix. The
fifth foot can...
- sneeze. The
first published collection of
double dactyls was Jiggery-Pokery: A
Compendium of
Double Dactyls,
edited by
Anthony Hecht and John Hollander. Many...
-
named after the
mythical creatures called dactyls, who,
according to Gr**** mythology,
lived on
Mount Ida.
Dactyl's orbit around Ida is not
precisely known...
- an
elegiac couplet. It
consists of two halves, each
consisting of two
dactyls, for
which spondees can be
substituted in the
first half only, followed...
- Gr****: Ἄκμων
means 'anvil, pestle') in Gr**** mythology, was one of the
Dactyls, ****ociated with the anvil, or
perhaps the Corybantes. He was the son of...
-
Dactylic metre is any
meter primarily composed of
dactyls (long-short-short, or stressed-unstressed-unstressed). It may
refer to:
Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic...
- ages. Ida's moon
Dactyl was
discovered by
mission member Ann
Harch in
images returned from Galileo. It was
named after the
Dactyls,
creatures which inhabited...
