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dactylic

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This may occur when the accent is on the first syllable of a foot; that is, when the foot is trochaic or dactylic.

Without such dactylic movement, the vocal expression of a pathos so intense would be hardly possible to the human voice.

In dactylic hexameter how many of these feet are there in a line?

Yet it is only by mere accident that Homer dealt with gods, wars, mythical events and employed dactylic hexameter.

A great variety of verses is used in the epitaphs, but the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac are the favorites.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dactylic, such as: anapestic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, and epodic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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