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dactyl
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Definition:poetic meter with one long syllable followed by two short syllables:Just for a handful of silver he left usJust for a riband to stick in his coatfrom Robert Browning's The Lost Leader
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He disliked the texture of those stiff verses, in their official garb, their abject reverence for grammar, their mechanical division by imperturbable cæsuras, always plugged at the end in the same way by the impact of a dactyl against a spondee.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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of “But she’s Oriane’s cousin!” words which seemed to have for the Duke the same practical value as certain epithets, convenient to the Roman poets because they provided them with dactyls or spondees for their hexameters.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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--My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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