Sentence example with the word 'dactylic'

dactylic

Definition adj. of or consisting of dactyls

Last update: September 1, 2015

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The metre used by Theocritus in the Bucolics and Mimes, as well as in the Epics, is the dactylic hexameter.   [Please select]

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_Hiawatha_ and _Evangeline_ are not rhymed, the former being trochaic tetrameter and the latter largely dactylic hexameter.   [Please select]

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In the first part of the sentence he appears to be speaking of paeonic rhythms which are in the ratio of 3/2; in the second part, of dactylic and anapaestic rhythms, which are in the ratio of 1/1; in the last clause, of iambic and trochaic rhythms, which are in the ratio of 1/2 or 2/1.   [Please select]

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