| 单词 | dactyl |
| 例句 | Another boom sounded and Magdalys swerved the dactyl into a sharp turn and then swooped low. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The dactyl lay dead; a rifle shot had taken half its head off. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She nodded slightly at Mapper, then they both launched their dactyls into a nosedive at the waiting trike battalion below. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And this dactyl—this strange and beautiful creature with its wrinkled, gray-brown hide, barrel chest, and slender neck—she wanted to hug it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Nice shooting,” Magdalys said, swinging the dactyl for one more circle over the walls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “A dactyl came with some grams today, children,” Von Marsh announced. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He turned around, walked back to his dactyl, and took off. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A dactyl zipped by overhead, but it didn’t look like it was carrying any messages. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They came up fast on the dactyl squad, just like Bernice had told them to do. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The dactyl had taken her directly over the Penitentiary. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Magdalys watched the dactyl swoop back into the night with a triumphant caw. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Mapper yelled as they landed their dactyls on a tar rooftop a few blocks away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She felt herself plummeting and heard the dactyl screech. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The dactyl squawked twice in what might’ve been a snicker, and took off to join its squad. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z All the dactyls around them hurled into the air for a few moments in alarm, then came clamoring back down. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Now they were bearing down on the squad, and the dactyl Magdalys had picked was flapping its wings like it might be about to take off. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Cry ‘havoc,’” Halsey whispered, “and let slip the dactyls of war.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Fly! she thought, but even as she did, the buildings around them fell away and she and the dactyl soared toward the sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She glanced back, saw Two Step on top of another dactyl, screaming for dear life. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “No, dear, but he should be back soon. Said Mr. Napoleon sent a dactyl bout something urgent and he had to rush off.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Together, they heaved the dust and blood-covered ptero off to the side and then hoisted Mapper up and brought him to where their dactyl waited anxiously. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z On the far wall, Mapper landed his own dactyl and gazed down in disbelief. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “One,” she counted as they sprinted closer and closer to the dactyl squad. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Two Step asked, gazing off toward a spiraling cluster of dactyls in the darkening sky to the east. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Hundreds of dactyls swarmed around it, diving in and out and fussing with each other. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Hop to a rooftop, spread out to opposite ends and sweep each chimney until they met up in the middle, jump a dactyl to the next block and start it all again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z All three of them climbed on the dactyl as the flames roared to life behind them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then a terrific shattering sounded from the far wall and a huge dactyl burst through the window and landed on the desk, Mapper grinning triumphantly on its back. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Up ahead, a squad of dactyls huddled at the edge of the building, sunning themselves and chattering in shrill squawks. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z One thing there’ll always be more of on Dactyl Hill is dactyls.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A single stressed syllable, then a trochee, then a dactyl, for prosody nerds. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She cast an apologetic glance at the darkness beneath them, whispered, “I’m sorry, whatever you are, that I can’t help you,” and then turned around and followed Two Step to a nearby squad of dactyls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Without the translation, the vuvv’s ode, its scratchy iambs and dactyls, sound like someone walking forcefully in corduroys. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Two Step yelled, covering his nose with one hand while keeping a tight grip on his dactyl with the other. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Their dactyls came in for a jolty landing on the rim of the huge silo. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “If they’re not, we lay in wait, catch whoever’s bringing them red-handed, and bring them down to the courthouse, after freeing the orphans. We stay in touch via messenger dactyl. Any questions?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The dactyl lifted one clawed foot then the other, its nails scratching nasty gashes into the surface of Weed’s once fancy desk, and squawked. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The dactyl screeched and took a few steps back from the noxious fumes now rising from the carpet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They even made a game out of it; whoever swept the most chimneys got first pick from the dactyl squad and could decide which way they headed next. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then sending that dactyl up into the air had been a piece of cake really. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She held her breath for a few seconds, then the dactyl swooped up from the other side, now riderless. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Or what if the dactyls get tired and can’t make it all the way out to wherever it is?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He hopped off the dactyl, careful not to land in the massive mound of pteropoop, and hurried over, satchel open. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And then his dactyl let out a shriek and crumpled, tumbling through a sudden explosion of dirt. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And even though his dactyl was swooping wildly through the clouds, they weren’t far back. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Mapper was already heading for the nearest dactyl. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Plus whatever dactyls we can rustle up,” Mapper added. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Beyond that, the strange building loomed beneath what looked like a living tornado of dactyls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Magdalys narrowed her eyes and ran harder, slamming into the dactyl’s back and wrapping her arms around its neck like Bernice had said to do. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Don't worry too much about the finer points of the trochees and dactyls: focus on the antic spirit of the thing. Poster poems: Sapphics 2010-07-02T09:32:00Z Doyen of dactyls ... detail from a Pompeii fresco of Sappho holding a stylus. Poster poems: Sapphics 2010-07-02T09:32:00Z There's a lovely contrast between the skippety dactyl of "Merry mites" and the surprising, ceremonious spondee, "Welcome". Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z The double dactyl is a form invented by writers Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal on a whim over lunch in Rome in 1951. Style Invitational Week 1076: Double dactyls and ScrabbleGrams neologisms They aren’t exactly Homeric dactyls, but they seem intended to mirror that ancient literary form, and they give “Everyday Life” an easily digestible if slightly pretentious rhythm. Review | In Annie-B Parson’s book, art and life are always intersecting 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The four other feet may be either spondees or dactyls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Sir R. Jebb pointed out that the last form might be varied by placing the dactyl second or third, and according to its place this verse was called a First, Second or Third Glyconic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z This ode is a curious medley of antique metres, trochees, dactyls, and spondees, attuned to tumultuous emotion. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z This done and you have discovered the Vernal Equinox, or Spring, and without spilling a dactyl. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z A final dactyl, requiring an elision to make it fit its place, appears to me very odious. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z There is a very great preponderance of dactyls. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The whirling circles suggested by the dactyl, with the occasional passionate break of a single accented word or syllable at the end of a line, assist the reader. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Unless more self-denying than most of their craft, I fear that they would hardly let a Gallic river stand in the way of a lively dactyl. The River-Names of Europe 2011-04-20T02:00:18.983Z So they walked along the road, and the rector made a joke; he said that they two together reminded him of the metre, which the Romans called a dactyl, long, short, short; long, short, short. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Pherecratian, consisting of three feet, a trochee, spondee, or iambus in the first place, followed by a dactyl and spondee. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Now I trust I am not insensible to the exquisite melody, the delicious dactyls of Shelley, of De Musset, and, I will add, of Mr. Swinburne himself. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z In the dactyls and the spondees he caught the rhythm of tinkling feet; and as the measures sank him into deeper sleep a monstrous beetle shot through the casement and put the candle out. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes In the specimen from Longfellow the words high-way, distant, human, of course, fill the places of complete dactyls. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Standing on his head there, he galloped backwards, forwards, and sideways in all sorts of extraordinary curves and ups and downs, his feet meanwhile playing trochees, dactyls, pyrrhics, &c., in the air. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II "List to the Sea", by Winifred V. Jordan, is a delightfully musical lyric, whose dancing dactyls and facile triple rhymes captivate alike the fancy and the ear. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The dactyl is used in some of the most pathetic and passionate monologues of the language. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The ad libitum alternation of dactyl and spondee make the lively or the grave; and the whole metrical glow is all life and action, without hitch or hindrance. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 Of this song Mr. Saintsbury says that it is "one of the rare examples of a real dactylic metre in English, where the dactyls are not, as usual, equally to be scanned as anapests." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There are several kinds of Latin feet; here, however, we shall only notice spondees and dactyls. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Thus in the Greek Hexameter the dactylic lines—those most abounding in dactyls—serve best to convey the idea of rapid motion. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 In the following selection from “Evangeline,” trochees are substituted for dactyls, yet there is no break in the rhythm. English: Composition and Literature The vehemence of the captain's applause is admirably displayed by the quantity of dactyls in the second line of this stanza. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 Here, as almost always in English, the measure is catalectic, a final dactyl being instinctively avoided, except in short two-stress lines. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History My dear Professor Blank, could you hear yourself described by these young cubs through their tobacco smoke, your learned ears, so alert for dactyl and spondee, would grow red. Chimney-Pot Papers Thus, the three words marked above make a choriambus -- u u, or perhaps a pæon primus - u u u; a dactyl, by virtue of comic rapidity, being only equal to an iambus when distinctly pronounced. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher The trochee and the dactyl are interchangeable; and the iambus and the anapest are interchangeable. English: Composition and Literature The scheme of the verse is as follows: This foot, consisting of one accented syllable, followed by two unaccented syllables, is called a dactyl. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The nimble dactyl striving to out-go, The drawling spondees pacing it below. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Alike to the amusement and the astonishment of every body, although he had no ear for numbers, and scarcely knew a dactyl from a spondee, Daniel accepted the honor. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman But Voltaire now quit the anapest and dactyl and devoted his best hours to taking fencing lessons. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 The last of the common feet which we shall have to consider in reading English poetry is called dactyl. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Take notice that the outriding feet are not to be confused with dactyls or paeons, though sometimes the line might be scanned either way. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published The lingring spondees, labouring to delay, The breathless dactyls with a sudden stay. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History If the first two syllables be regarded as anacrusis, the first line would be trochaic, with a dactyl substituted for a trochee in the second foot. The Principles of English Versification “Dactyl” is a fine word; in Greek it means “finger”; like a finger, a poetic dactyl has three parts, one long and two short. Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School This echo in an evening, before rural noises cease, would repeat ten syllables most articulately and distinctly, especially if quick dactyls were chosen. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Hence, though accented, they may, on occasion, be considered and used as short; as, on the same principle, dolorous stratagem echoeth family, usually dactyls, may, on occasion, become tribrachs. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Peace be with all! but afar be ambition to follow the Roman, Led by the German uncombed and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Perfect anapests, like perfect dactyls, are comparatively few in English. The Principles of English Versification “Anapest” comes from a Greek verb which means “strike back”; an anapest is a reversed dactyl. Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School The general beat may be compared to the dactyl of ancient Greek and Roman versification. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir The following lines defy all efforts at reading in dactyls or spondees, and require an almost complete transposition of accent. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art The varying ring and swing communicated to the dactyls of these two pieces by the jolly humour of the one and the refined sentiment of the other, is a point worth noticing. An Introduction to the Study of Browning To say that the first phrase is made up of a dactyl and two trochees means very little. The Principles of English Versification Some begin with a word that is neither dactyl nor spondee, some conclude with a dactyl, and in the intermediate part he sometimes deviates equally from the established custom. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Systems more numerous than dactyls and spondees in Classic verse, patent putters outnumbered only by howlers in Oxford responsions, bear witness to this graceless statement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 This gives us or , the dactyl in poetry. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The relative value of a single dactyl occurring in an iambic pentameter line cannot be predicated of cases in which the two forms alternate with each other throughout the verse. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Beauty, by this usage, is a trochee, beautiful a dactyl, relate an iamb, intercede an anapest. The Principles of English Versification The Dactylic Hexameter, or Heroic Verse, consists theoretically of six dactyls. New Latin Grammar There shall be six feet in each line, dactyls or spondees, and the fifth foot shall be a dactyl and the sixth a spondee or a trochee. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Now if we think that these lines can be sung to the same musical rhythm we are very far from the truth, although both are hexameters, namely, dactyls, ending with spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University In this last factor, I believe, lies the explanation of the extreme brevity of dactyls appearing in three-rhythms. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. "Pheidippides" is in a measure of Mr. Browning's own, composed of dactyls and spondees, each line ending with a half foot or pause. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) The Dactylic Pentameter consists of two parts, each of which contains two dactyls, followed by a long syllable. New Latin Grammar The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls. Shandygaff For instance, the Molossian dance consisted of three long steps, ; that of the Laconians was the dactyl, , which was sometimes reversed . Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University There is presented in each case a single curve; the dactyl moves continuously away from an initial accent in an unbroken decrescendo, the anapæst moves continuously toward a final accent in an unbroken crescendo. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Peace be with all! but afar be ambition to follow the Roman, Led by the German, uncomb'd, and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Spondees may take the place of the dactyls in the first part, but not in the second. New Latin Grammar In technical terms each line consists of three parts: the first part including two dactyls, the second part two dactyls, the third part one dactyl and one trochee. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 For its rhythm it depended upon that of the hexameter, which consists of a line of six dactyls and spondees, the line always ending with a spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University There is a similar contrast in the cases of the dactyl and anapæst. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Without this, months of reading of amphibrachs and trochees and dactyls will not avail. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit It is a rough, irregular metre, in which the trochees preponderate over the dactyls: many of the lines, in fact, would not bear a critical scansion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 There is also a rhyme, in each line, of the second dactyl with the fourth. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 There are four regular feet in English verse, the iambus, the anapest, the trochee, and the dactyl. Composition-Rhetoric I do not forget the work of other observers, such as Brücke, who finds that dactyls which appear among trochees are of less duration than the latter, nor do I impugn their results. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It did not seem fit to us that such a one as he should trouble his head about spondees and dactyls, or care to know who signed the Magna Charta. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales For the iambic is most frequent in those orations which are composed in a humble and lowly style; but the paeon is suited to a more dignified style; and the dactyl to both. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q A dactyl is a foot consisting of three syllables with the accent on the first. Composition-Rhetoric The accented syllable of the dactyl is longest, and the second unaccented syllable, the last in the group, is shortest. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Thus a Latin hexameter is formed from dactyls and spondees, differently combined; the English heroick admits of acute or grave syllables, variously disposed. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 For the iambic and the dactyl are those which are most usually employed in verse; and, therefore, as we avoid verses in making speeches, so also a recurrence of these feet must be avoided. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Each part consists of two dactyls and a long syllable. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q The following from Evangeline illustrates the substitution of trochees for dactyls:— U U | U | U U | U U | U U | U | Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed. Composition-Rhetoric Two types were chosen, the trochee and the dactyl. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Here, as in other writers of the age, the influence of Ovid is traceable in the increase of dactyls and the avoidance of elision. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal But Ephorus will not even admit that the spondee, which he condemns, is equivalent to the dactyl, which he approves of. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 The amphimacer may, in English, be substituted for the dactyl, occasionally. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey The trochee and the dactyl are both accented on the first syllable and may, therefore, be interchanged. Composition-Rhetoric The prolongation of the foot pause would make the dactyl but a modified trochee. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Thus the three words marked above make a 'choriambus'—u u —, or perhaps a 'paeon primus'—u u u; a dactyl, by virtue of comic rapidity, being only equal to an iambus when distinctly pronounced. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Accordingly, the dactyl is of the first class, the paeon of the last, the iambic of the second. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 These feet, in the Latin and Greek languages, were always either dactyls, or spondees; the time of a dactyl, being only that of a spondee. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey One great obstacle to your understanding of him is your having been forced to construct Latin verses, with introduction of the word 'Jupiter' always, at need, when you were at a loss for a dactyl. Val d'Arno The anapæst and dactyl, if they correspond to this construction, should show a decided difference as to the possibility of prolonging the foot pause. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Adherents of musical theories in the interpretation of verse may prefer to speak of "duple time" instead of iambic-trochaic metres, and of "triple" time for anapests and dactyls. A Study of Poetry But there is nothing new in English literature for some hundreds of years in combinations of dactyls, anapests or trochees, and without rhyme. Toward the Gulf This consists of two dactyls, and three trochees; the two dactyls first; and the trochees following. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey You always feel as if Horace only used it also when he wanted a dactyl. Val d'Arno In connexion with this character I would have the student note that I have introduced into the dog's part just before the curtain a whole line of dactyls. On Something It is made up of all the poetic feet —iambics, trochees, dactyls, anapests—so that it almost defies any attempt at scansion. Poets of the South I saw my chance, and proceeded to propound to these two authorities the following question: "Why is it that nobody has ever written an English poem in pure dactyls?" The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography He seemingly counted much on the effect of incessantly reiterated dactyls. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music —My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. Ulysses Or skating to sliding: Or English verse to dactyls in English: Or painting to daubing: Or preserved strawberries to strawberry jam. Christie Johnstone According to Porphyry, Pythagoras, on his arrival on the island of Crete, was purified with thunder-stones by the dactyl priests of Mount Ida. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples It is called hexameter because each line has six feet: one of these is of two long syllables, called spondee; the other, of three syllables, one long and two short, which is called dactyl. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables, because the dactyl is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.—Master, Notre-Dame De Paris A fig for all dactyls, a fig for all spondees, A fig for all dunces and dominie grandees. The Heir of Redclyffe I do not think I felt at all murderous in writing it; but a more innocent subject would have been in better taste, and would have met the exigencies of the dactyl quite as well. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Along came my poet, hurrying, hatted, haired, emitting dactyls, spondees and dactylis. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million This echo in an evening, before rural noises cease, would repeat ten syllables most articulately and distinctly, especially if quick dactyls were chosen. The Natural History of Selborne Anathemas have been hurled against this pest in nearly every European language, old and new, and classical scholars of bye-gone centuries have thrown their spondees and dactyls at him. The Enemies of Books The epic roll of the furrow Flung from the writing plow, The dactyl phrase of the green-rowed maize Measured the music of Now. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets |
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