The dactyl is used in some of the most pathetic and passionate monologues of the language.
The dactyl is used with a very similar effect in Austin Dobson's "Before Sedan" (p.
It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.
Illustration] Issuing upon the street, Dactyl said something about going back to the office, but the air and sunlight said him nay.
Whereupon succeeded a course of honeycomb tripe, which moved Dactyl to quoting Rabelais, something that Grangousier had said about tripes.
Jebb pointed out that the last form might be varied by placing the dactyl second or third, and according to its place this verse was called a First, Second or Third Glyconic.
Pherecratian, consisting of three feet, a trochee, spondee, or iambus in the first place, followed by a dactyl and spondee.
The dactylic hexameter consists of six feet, each of which is either a dactyl or a spondee, though the sixth is always a spondee and the fifth almost always a dactyl.
Roman, Led by the German uncombed and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple.
Here, as almost always in English, the measure is catalectic, a final dactyl being instinctively avoided, except in short two-stress lines.
The nimble dactylstriving to out-go, The drawling spondees pacing it below.
A Dactyl is a three-syllable foot accented on the first syllable.
The trochee and the dactyl are interchangeable; and the iambus and the anapest are interchangeable.
Horace admits resolutions only four times, the tribrach once in the second foot and the dactylthrice in the first.
This verse is a logaoedic pentapody acatalectic, with the dactyl in the third place.
It is a logaoedic tetrapody catalectic, with a dactyl in the second place.
It is a logaoedic tripody, with thedactyl in the second place.
The tribrach and dactyl are seldom found in the fourth foot.
The dactyl and proceleusmatic are rare in the fifth foot.
This verse is a logaoedic pentapody with the dactylin the second place.
This is a logaoedic tripody acatalectic, with a dactyl in the first place.
In technical terms each line consists of three parts: the first part including two dactyls, the second part two dactyls, the third part one dactyl and one trochee.
There is also a rhyme, in each line, of the second dactyl with the fourth.
Accordingly, the dactyl is of the first class, the paeon of the last, the iambic of the second.
For the iambic is most frequent in those orations which are composed in a humble and lowly style; but the paeon is suited to a more dignified style; and the dactyl to both.
For the iambic and the dactyl are those which are most usually employed in verse; and, therefore, as we avoid verses in making speeches, so also a recurrence of these feet must be avoided.
Many poems, and especially songs, are written in the dactyl or anapæstic measure, some consisting of eleven or twelve syllables, and some of less.
A Dactyl has the first syllable accented, and the last two [syllables] unaccented.
By many, thedactyl is expressly set down as an inferior foot, which they imagine is used only for the occasional diversification of an iambic, trochaic, or anapestic line.
A Dactyl has the first syllable accented, and the two latter unaccented.
If the first two syllables be regarded as anacrusis, the first line would be trochaic, with a dactyl substituted for a trochee in the second foot.
To say that the first phrase is made up of a dactyl and two trochees means very little.
