dactyl

A Dactyl is a three-syllable foot accented on the first syllable.

It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.

The proceleusmatic foot, or four short syllables, instead of the dactyl; scen.

This foot, consisting of one accented syllable, followed by two unaccented syllables, is called a dactyl.

The Dactyl, a foot of three syllables, the first long and the two last short, is used principally in the first place in the line.