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Dactyl, Dactylic Defined

A metrical foot of three syllables, the first of which is long or accented and the next two short or unaccented, as in MER-rily or LOV-er boy, or from Byron's "The Bride of Abydos":
KNOW ye the | LAND where the | CY-press and | MYR-tle
Sidelight: Except for their use in humorous light verse, dactylic lines are now infrequent in English poetry.
(See also Double Dactyl, Meter, Rhythm)

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