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Dactylic   Listen
noun
Dactylic  n.  
1.
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
2.
pl. Dactylic meters.





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"Dactylic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the language, easy, graceful, and correct. But the pauses are poorly managed; the rhythm is unduly dactylic; the verse trips all too lightly ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler


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