“Southey agrees, however, that the foot before the final trochee should always be a dactyl.”

“It is composed of a mixture of 7 species: alfalfa, clover, fescue, millet, dactyl, Kentucky bluegrass, and sweet clover.”

“Researchers now report what makes these appendages, called dactyl clubs, so powerful.”

“This is matched by the metre where, however, intricate use of trochees and dactyls gives a song-like quality to the verse.”

“The lines gradually increase from a trochaic monometer catalectic to a complicated decamter of spondees, anapaests, paeons, and dactyls.”

“She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.”