Looking for sentences and phrases with the word dactyl? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Southey agrees, however, that the foot before the final trochee should always be a dactyl.
Researchers now report what makes these appendages, called dactyl clubs, so powerful.
It is composed of a mixture of 7 species: alfalfa, clover, fescue, millet, dactyl, Kentucky bluegrass, and sweet clover.
Dactylic metres are fairly rare in English verse, one difficulty being that the prolonged use of the dactyl tends to distort normal word accent, giving the lines a jerky movement.
Examples from Classical Literature
But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee may take the place of the dactyl.
It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.
This done and you have discovered the Vernal Equinox, or Spring, and without spilling a dactyl.
But Voltaire now quit the anapest and dactyl and devoted his best hours to taking fencing lessons.
Among the poetic forms included are rondeau, terza rima, limerick, tetractys, cinquain, sonnet, pantoum, haiku, double dactyl, and epigram.
Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.
You always feel as if Horace only used it also when he wanted a dactyl.
This foot, which is the opposite of the dactyl, is known as the anapest.
