what is dactyl ? For what it is used.
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finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight.
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A dactyl is a three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which a stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables. ... Dactyls were used to compose Greek epic poetry such as the Iliad or Odyssey. The Latin word for dactyl is dactylus, which itself has the stress pattern of a dactyl: dac-tyl-us.
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