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"Dactylic"
Keywords:
chiefly
,
wholly
,
unstressed
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poetics
,
verses
Related Terms:
Iambic
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Alexandrine
,
Iambic pentameter
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Trochaic
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Anapest
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Dactyl
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Trochee
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Iamb
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Hexameter
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Spondee
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Scansion
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Versification
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Double dactyl
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Foot
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Metre
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Feminine rhyme
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Meter
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Anacrusis
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Accentuate
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Tetrameter
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Free verse
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Villanelle
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Blank verse
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Strophe
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Sestet
,
Pyrrhic
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Hexachord
,
Verse
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Tribrach
,
Ottava rima
,
Rondel
,
Stanza
,
Sapphic
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Solmization
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Pentameter
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Accent
,
Octameter
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Distich
,
Envoy
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Barytone
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Envoi
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Sestina
,
Ballade
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Masculine rhyme
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Sonnet
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Triolet
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Refrain
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Rhythm
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Limerick
Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
ftp.uga.edu
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
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Dactylic meters.
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From Greek poetics. Corresponding to the musical pattern of “long-short-short.
jtimothycaldwell.net
the metrical pattern in which each foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
wwnorton.com
of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter"
wordnet.princeton.edu
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