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- dacˈtylically, adverb
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- dac·tyli·cal·ly adverb
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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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