Hesiod says that those who are called the Idaean Dactyls taught the smelting and tempering of iron in Crete.
It is clear that Dionysius does not regard even these irrational dactyls as three-timed merely; the nearest approach to that view is in the remark that some are not much longer than trochees.
For dactyls freely used in the Virgilian hexameter cp.
He sails away from Ilium on as many dactyls as possible.
This verse is a logaoedic tetrapody acatalectic, withdactyls in the first and second places.
It is uncertain whether the dactyls in dactylo-trochaic verse were cyclic (2523) or whether there was a change of time in the middle of the verse.
No resolutions are allowed in the first colon, and the dactyls in the second colon are never replaced by spondees.
Logaoedic verse consists of dactyls and trochees combined in the same metrical series.
The lingring spondees, labouring to delay, The breathless dactyls with a sudden stay.
Of this song Mr. Saintsbury says that it is "one of the rare examples of a real dactylic metre in English, where the dactylsare not, as usual, equally to be scanned as anapests.
It consists of two parts, divided by a cæsura, each part composed of two dactyls (interchangeable with spondees) and a long syllable.
When dactylsor anapæsts are used, of course the number of syllables exceeds the double of the feet.
The first feet of both lines are less dactyls than anapæsts.
The Hexameter line consists of, practically, fivedactyls and a spondee or trochee.
There shall be six feet in each line, dactyls or spondees, and the fifth foot shall be a dactyl and the sixth a spondee or a trochee.
I have spent some time in struggling with his hexameters; I have attempted to track his dactyls to their lair; I have followed up what I took to be his spondees, and I am thankful to say that I have managed to survive.
For your Dactyls I am sorry you are so sore about 'em--a very Sir Fretful!
In good troth, the Dactyls are good Dactyls, but their measure is naught.
The Dactyls were Coleridge's only in the third stanza; the remainder were Southey's.
Each part consists of two dactyls and a long syllable.
Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement<-- ?
A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee.
Defn: Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
Defn: A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee.
So called from its stirring, warlike character; it was composed of two dactyls and a spondee, followed again by two dactyls and a spondee.
The hexameter is a six-foot catalectic verse theoretically consisting of five successive dactyls and a trochee.
The verses are trochaic with two dactyls at the beginning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dactyls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
