![]() ![]() metrics along with the *anapest and perhaps the *amphibrach as the three mod. The dactyl is usually mentioned in handbooks of Eng. ![]() by August Buchner in his opera Orpheus (1638), arousing a brief vogue, evidenced in Simon Dach and Friedrich von Logau. Dactylic verse was, however, revived in Ger. to the vernaculars, however, it lost place to iambic-which even in antiquity had been the meter felt to be closest to common (Gr.) speech and had been used for recitation meters such as dialogue in drama-as the staple meter of art verse and *epic. art verse through most of the Middle Ages. age, though the dactylic hexameter remained the meter for much Lat. the *epitrite, in various combinations known collectively as These latter did not survive the cl. poetry: in narrative verse, it is used particularly for the *hexameter and *elegiac distich, and in lyric, it is used alone and with other cola, esp. prosodies based on *accent, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones (e.g., Dactyl is the metrical basis of much of cl. ![]() In *classical prosody, a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable followed by two short ones. ![]()
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