Dactylic metre is any meter primarily composed of dactyls (long-short-short, or stressed-unstressed-unstressed). It may refer to:
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Dactylic hexameter — (also known as heroic hexameter ) is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Greek and Latin, and was consequently considered to be the Grand… … Wikipedia
Dactylic tetrameter — For the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry, see Alcmanian verse. Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four dactylic feet. Tetrameter simply means four poetic feet. Each foot has a stressed… … Wikipedia
metre — I n. BE AE spelling: meter verse rhythm arrangement of syllables 1) anapaestic, anapestic; dactylic; heroic; iambic; trochaic metre unit of length 2) a cubic; square metre * * * [ miːtə] anapestic dactylic heroic iambic square metre … Combinatory dictionary
Metre — Meter Me ter, Metre Me tre, n. [OE. metre, F. m[ e]tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Dactyl (poetry) — Metrical feet Disyllables ˘ ˘ pyrrhus, dibrach ˘ ¯ iamb … Wikipedia
Dactyl — may refer to: Dactyl (mythology), a creature in Greek mythology Dactyl (poetry), a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable and two short Dactyl (moon), the small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid Ida Finger, in medical terminology,… … Wikipedia
Praxilla — Praxilla, of Sicyon, was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC. According to Athenaeus (xv. 694), she was famous as a composer of scolia (short lyrical poems sung after dinner), which were considered equal to those of Alcaeus and Anacreon. She … Wikipedia
prosody — prosodic /preuh sod ik/, prosodical, adj. /pros euh dee/, n. 1. the science or study of poetic meters and versification. 2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton s prosody. 3. Ling. the stress and intonation… … Universalium
Aeolic verse — is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect. These verse forms were taken up and… … Wikipedia
Meter (poetry) — In poetry, meter (metre in British English) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. The study of… … Wikipedia
