dactylic

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• So you get a rhythm such as the dactylic hexameter, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

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• The Iliad, Also like the Greek epics, the Aeneid is written entirely in dactylic hexameter.

• The stricter dactylic line returns at the end of the poem.

  Academic text (2016)

• There is one interesting effect, however, in the weather and wind choruses of the prologue; the verses are usually in dactylic rhythm.

  Academic text (2000)

• Prins presents Arnold as the champion of the accentual dactylic hexameter as crucially important for a modern English nation.

  Academic text (2016)

• While most lines are in hexameters and are generally iambic, as above, sometimes—especially, for some reason, in the prologue—Kellgren uses dactylic rhythms.

  Academic text (2000)

• Despite his willingness to play with verse forms imported from other languages, he scorned the accentual hexameter line conceived as a translation into English of the Greek dactylic hexameter.

  Academic text (2016)

• But a passage of delicious opprobrium in the review of Arnold makes clear that Swinburne regarded the entire effort as a waste of time and the dactylic hexameter in English as a metrical monstrosity.

  Academic text (2016)

• Whereas the recitative is mostly in hexameters, usually iambic in rhythm, occasionally dactylic, but used with a great deal of flexibility and freedom, the arias are almost always in fairly strict, even rigid, tetrameters.

  Academic text (2000)

• "Hesperia" is a simulacrum of sound, at one or even two removes from an imagined original—just as the dactylic hexameter in English, a translation of a verse form into a language that cannot really accommodate it, must always be.

  Academic text (2016)

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