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Words related to dactylic

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  • alcmanic verse

    a form of verse used in Greek drama and Latin dramatic poetry, composed in dactylic tetrameter.

  • archilochian

    denoting or relating to the 7th century bc Greek poet Archilochus or his verse, esp the iambic trimeters or trochaic tetrameters used by him

  • elegiac

    (especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality.

  • heroic verse

    a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!

  • hexameter

    a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
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