Dactyl

Definitions

A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.

Equivalents

Examples

“Now the Bard, glad to get⟳ an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir⟳. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]”

“—My name⟳ is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring⟳, hasn't it?”

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