| 单词 | dactylic |
| 例句 | The next example is three lines of dactylic hexameter scratched onto a drinking cup: “I am Nestor’s delicious drinking cup. Whoever drinks from this cup swiftly will the desire of fair-crowned Aphrodite seize him.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is the last word in lines one, three, and five, and so sets up a kind of soft dactylic chime which is audible throughout the poem. Poem of the week: A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham 2011-02-23T10:44:17Z Fruition, despite its light, jaunty, dactylic rhythms, its inventive word play, its warm physicality and emotional knife-throwing, reveals a more complex dimension. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z That script is three lines of verse, two in dactylic hexameter, the metre of epic verse. From carnage to a camp beauty contest: the endless allure of Troy 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z It is said that Meechan’s fellow satirist, Juvenal, issued a similar warning to ancient Greek critics, infuriated by his cavalier use of the dactylic hexameter, in the second century AD. Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance? | Stewart Lee 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z There were monkeypods, “planted as seedlings no taller than chives,” as Mr. Merwin wrote, in impeccable dactylic tetrameter, in an essay in “What Is a Garden?,” which centers on his work in Hawaii. W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z As such, it’s particularly difficult to adapt to dactylic hexameter, the waltzlike, oom-pah-pah meter of epic poetry, which the Romans inherited from the Greeks. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z HEXAMETER, the name of the earliest and most important form of classical verse in dactylic rhythm. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Young gentlemen, there's a capital start on a fine, sonorous line, dactylic hexameter. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z And in the same manner the hexameter, a dactylic measure, must have the last two feet regular, while the four preceding feet may each be either trissyllabic or dissyllabic. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Except in this poem, we do not remember ever to have seen dactylic blank verse attempted in the English language. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Without such dactylic movement, the vocal expression of a pathos so intense would be hardly possible to the human voice. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The dactylic movement of the heroic line in ancient Greek, the famous ῥυθμὸς ἡρῷος of Homer, is expressed in modern Europe by the iambic movement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z It was no easy thing for the average boy to read three lines of the resounding dactylic hexameters of "P. Virgilius Maro" according to the Columbia system of the day without a slip in quantity. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z The Delphians claim that their first priestess invented the dactylic hexameter; the Delians said that Olen, a mythical singer from Asia Minor, first used it, but it was, of course, a development. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But it was one thing to admire the Greek dactylic hexameter, with its smooth-flowing cadences, and quite another to force the heavy, rough Latin speech into this measure. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z I have known readers, speakers, and actors who have completely lost the dactylic and even the trochaic spirit or mode of expression. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The poet does not handle dactylic measures quite easily; on the other hand, he is masterly in the lighter lyrical forms. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes The last two inscriptions are in dactylic hexameter. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 The perfected poems in a pattern as regular as the dactylic hexameter were a stage of evolution and did not spring up out of the darkness of an age which had no literature. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Vergil's own works, aside from certain minor poems attributed to him, were three in number: the Eclogues, Georgics, and the �neid, all composed in the dactylic hexameter. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z It is composed in dactylic meter, affording another illustration of the adoption of popular rhythms in the hymnology of the heretical sects. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries The metre is dactylic hexameter with the leonine and tailed rhyme, each line being broken up into three parts. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes The omission of one of the two light syllables from the foot in trisyllabic verse is so common as to make it difficult to find pure anapestic or dactylic verse in English. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Yet it is only by mere accident that Homer dealt with gods, wars, mythical events and employed dactylic hexameter. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The swinging dactylic rhythm is well managed except where the words "descending" and "ascending" occur, and where, in line 24, the metre becomes momentarily anapaestic. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 No, says Campbell, there is a difference: the Alexandrine is not in fact, like the dactylic line, pronounced in the common time. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 This may occur when the accent is on the first syllable of a foot; that is, when the foot is trochaic or dactylic. English: Composition and Literature 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 Hiawatha and Evangeline are not rhymed, the former being trochaic tetrameter and the latter largely dactylic hexameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide "Snow of the Northland", by M. Estella Shufelt, is a religious poem of different sort, whose tuneful dactylic quatrains contain much noble and appropriate metaphor. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 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 For example, “The Merchant of Venice” is in iambic pentameter, and “The Courtship of Miles Standish” is in dactylic hexameter. English: Composition and Literature In this specimen the characteristic rhythm of lines 1, 4, and 5 is dactylic, that of the remainder anapestic-iambic. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The line, "Softly the breezes descend in the valley," is dactylic tetrameter, though the last foot is a trochee. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The general anapaestic or dactylic rhythm is much disturbed by the iambic fourth line of the first stanza. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Thirdly; it is a gross mistake to suppose that the Greek dactylic line is "the model in this matter"—the matter of the English Alexandrine. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 In every stanza there are four short lines of dactylic dimeter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Imitations of classical verse in English may conveniently be divided into two classes: imitations of lyrical measures, and imitations of the dactylic hexameter. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The storm centre of all classical adaptations has been the dactylic hexameter, the standard measure of Greek and Latin narrative poetry. The Principles of English Versification His most important work was an epic poem, entitled the "Annals of Rome," in 18 books, written in dactylic hexameters, which, through his example, supplanted the old Saturnian metre. A Smaller History of Rome The Greek dactylic line is of the same number of feet—bars—beats—pulsations—as the ordinary dactylic-spondaic lines among which it occurs. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 In the series of dactylic lines 17-22, Catullus no doubt intended to convey the idea of rapidity, as, in the spondaic line immediately following, of labour. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Virgil made use of the dactylic hexameter because it was the literary tradition of his day that epics should be written in that metre. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor There occur examples of 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-stress iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic lines, sometimes used continuously and sometimes used in combinations with other lengths. The Principles of English Versification It is uttered wholly in the dactylic measure, the noblest and most magnificent of all measures, and hence forming the chief constituent in the finest metre we know, the heroic. On the Sublime For even the wine was mixed with water according to musical ratios; for instance, the pæonic or 3 to 2, = ; the iambic or 2 to 1, = ; dactylic or 2 to 2, = . Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University In the first place, note the metrical structure, the sober level octosyllables of the overture changing suddenly to a dance-measure which, for a wonder in English, almost keeps the true dactylic movement. Matthew Arnold In the same way a triplicated structure replaces the dipodic as the acceleration still continues; and likewise of the dactylic forms. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc. The Principles of English Versification That is, if he ever was an infant, and called for his bottle in dactylic hexameter. Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College The feminine and dactylic rhymes, which have been for the most part omitted by all metrical translators except Mr. Brooks, are indispensable. Faust And in his review of "The Courtship of Miles Standish," Lowell makes effective use of his scholarship to introduce a lengthy and interesting discourse on the dactylic hexameter. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays In the anapæstic form the three degrees of intensity are still maintained, three out of four subjects giving consistent results; and the order of relative values is the simple converse of the dactylic. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. They are ruder in form; and alternately rhymed, or distinguished from prose only by a certain irregular but prosodic measure, sometimes trochaic, but mostly dactylic. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations I'll bet the old fellow, when he has the toothache, groans in dactylic hexameters and calls for his breakfast in the Ionic dialect. Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College A great variety of verses is used in the epitaphs, but the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac are the favorites. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature This poem, written before he left England, is, like most of his verse, in dactylic hexameters. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 This proportion is broken in the relation of the primary interval to the unit group in the dactylic rhythm form. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. When the feet are accented on the first syllable—as in trochaic or dactylic verse—a syllable may be omitted from the end of a line as in the second and fourth below. Composition-Rhetoric But the pauses are poorly managed; the rhythm is unduly dactylic; the verse trips all too lightly and becomes monotonous. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Neither did the stressed "dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language." A Study of Poetry Ennius compelled the intractable forms of Latin speech to accommodate themselves to the dactylic rhythm. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius This form of succession I have called a transformed dactylic. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Matthew Arnold considered it too dactylic, but the lightness of its movement personifies the grace of the heroine herself. Cambridge Sketches His brief 'Andromeda' is one of the best English poems in the classical dactylic hexameter. A History of English Literature The number of dactylic terminations in the language give to it all the variety that the sdruccioli give to the Italian. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 By this means he gave a dactylic direction to Latin prosody which it afterwards, though only slightly, extended. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius It adheres to the dactylic type in possessing initial accentuation; it departs from the normal dactylic succession in inverting the values of the second and third members of the group. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Hear what a motion, what a tumult, is given by the dactylic close to each of the introductory lines! Note Book of an English Opium-Eater The poem next to my dactylic Introduction was a dramatic lyric, partly blank verse and partly rhymed choruses, in the Swinburne manner. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography The metrical form, dactylic hexameter, is one that few of our poets have successfully used, and many have thought it wholly unfitted to English verse. History of American Literature The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic. The Principles of Aesthetics The series of three beats decreasing in intensity represents the natural dactylic; the distortion actually presented is the result of the proximity of each of these groups to a syncopated measure which follows it. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The metre of the song is dactylic; the accents being on the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th syllables. The Lady of the Lake It will be noted that I have here tried my hand at my favourite measure, the dactylic. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography Even when the beginning of the series is made coincident with the initial phase of the amphibrachic group the rhythmic type slips over into the dactylic, in spite of effort. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Two rhythm forms were analyzed, the trochaic and the dactylic, the series of sounds being given by hammer-falls of 7/8 and 1/8 inch for accented and unaccented elements respectively. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The amphibrachic form, , is more difficult to maintain than either the dactylic or the trochaic, and in a continuous series tends to pass over into one of these, usually the former. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Six observers took part in the work with trochaic forms, five in that with dactylic. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The first two of these four-beat forms are dactylic in structure, the former with a postscript note added, the latter with a grace note prefixed. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. |
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