| The lines gradually increase from a trochaic monometer catalectic to a complicated decamter of spondees, anapaests, paeons, and dactyls. |
| It seemed the answer was not strict anapests or dactyls or even amphibrachs but a looser sense of the line altogether, with room to gallop and stop short at will. |
| Take notice that the outriding feet are not to be confused with dactyls or paeons, though sometimes the line might be scanned either way. |
| So do dactyls, and neither of these meters is particularly associated with subtlety, but Finch sets out to change that. |
| Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear. |
| The dactylic Pentameter consists of two parts, each of which contains two dactyls, followed by a long syllable. |
