| Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic. |
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| An anapestic or dactylic trimetrical line will have nine syllables, and a trisyllabic tetrametrical line will have twelve syllables. |
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| The poet introduced himself as a reincarnated Homer, addressed the Greek Muses, and composed in dactylic hexameter the metre of Homer. |
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| Researchers have even shown that reciting poetry in dactylic hexameter can help synchronize heartbeats with breathing. |
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| I also remember that the Aeneid is written in dactylic hexameter, but I no longer remember what that means. |
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| This Homeric dialect became the standard for dactylic poetry all over the Greek world. |
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| The translation is not written in Homer's dactylic hexameter, but it does use emoticons to emphasize intense moments. |
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| He adopted Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics. |
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| The epics of Homer and of Virgil are composed in dactylic hexameter. |
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| Yet the poetry broke with the epic tradition, in which a single performer declaimed verse in dactylic hexameters, as Stesichorus's lyric verses in the Doric dialect were accompanied by a stringed instrument. |
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| As a result of a long oral formulaic tradition of epic poetry in dactylic hexameters, the language of the Homeric epics is an artificial mixture of dialects. |
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| From here Beethoven propels us through a sonata-form movement of bold harmonic changes, startling alternations of loud and soft, and an obsessive display of the pervasive rhythmic motif often described as dactylic. |
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| He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse. |
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| Later Ovid produced his Metamorphoses, written in dactylic hexameter verse, the meter of epic, attempting a complete mythology from the creation of the earth to his own time. |
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| Ancient Greek and Latin poems were written in dactylic hexameter. |
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| Kinsella has predominantly used anapaestic and dactylic metrical feet, a technique which evokes both the sea's rhythmic, repeated pattern and its maelstrom of clashing forces. |
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