- Look up
dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dactyl may
refer to:
Dactyl (mythology), a
legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a
metrical unit of verse...
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poetry in both languages, the
elegiac couplet being a
dactylic hexameter line
paired with a
dactylic pentameter line. This form of
verse was used for love...
- syllable). An
example of
dactylic meter is the
first line of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem
Evangeline (1847),
which is in
dactylic hexameter: This is...
- Pope
Gregory I, in double-
dactylic rhyme, Oxford:
Oxbow Books, ISBN 1842171119
Catalyst Library Alex Chaffee. "Double
Dactyls".
Archived from the original...
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Dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til;
formally (243) Ida I
Dactyl) is a tiny
asteroid moon 1,200 by 1,400 by 1,600 m (3,900 by 4,600 by 5,200 ft), in size) that orbits...
- In Gr**** mythology, the
Dactyls or
Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from
Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the
archaic mythical race of male beings...
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Dactylic tetrameter is a
metre in poetry. It
refers to a line
consisting of four
dactylic feet. "Tetrameter"
simply means four
poetic feet. Each foot...
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tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Double dactyl This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated with the
title Dactylic metre. If an...
- The
dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in
classical Gr**** and
Latin poetry,
follows a
dactylic hexameter to make up an
elegiac couplet. It consists...
- ages. Ida's moon
Dactyl was
discovered by
mission member Ann
Harch in
images returned from Galileo. It was
named after the
Dactyls,
creatures which inhabited...
