dactyl
Example Sentences
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Many Loserbards noted that “epithalamium” has that ONE-two-three, TWO-two-three meter — a double dactyl; this week’s Inkin’ Memorial winner is the best of them, in its knitted-highbrow/lowbrow glory.
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015
There's a lovely contrast between the skippety dactyl of "Merry mites" and the surprising, ceremonious spondee, "Welcome".
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010
The double dactyl is a form invented by writers Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal on a whim over lunch in Rome in 1951.
From Washington Post
Thereafter comes a famous name�also double dac tylic�followed by another double dactyl and a line of four beats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Magdalys watched the dactyl swoop back into the night with a triumphant caw.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
