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Revision as of 16:10, September 23, 2011
A dactyl is a unit of a poetic foot in poetry which is made up of one stressed (accented) syllable followed by two unstressed (unaccented) syllables[1]. Lines of verse that are predominantly made up of dactyls are referred to as dactylic. For instance, if a line consisted of five sets of dactyls, it would be considered to be in dactylic pentameter.
A few examples of dactylic words are: