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dactylic
Part of Speech: Noun
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Examples of usage:
- I have known readers, speakers, and actors who have completely lost the dactylic and even the trochaic spirit or mode of expression. - "Browning and the Dramatic Monologue", S. S. Curry.
- " It treats," said the poet, " of that part of the history of king Arthur of England which archbishop Turpin left unwritten, together with the history of the quest of the Sangreal, the whole in heroic measure,- part rhymes, part blank- verse; and in dactyles moreover, that is to say, in dactylic noun substantives, without any admission of verbs." - "The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes", Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
- It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc. - "The Principles of English Versification", Paull Franklin Baum.