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Use "dactyls" in a sentence
"Triplets are called dactyls or anapests in the official lingo, depending on whether they start with an upbeat or not."
"Suppose we him, however, possessed of industry and genius; his genius is fettered in dactyls and spondees, and his eloquence exercised in languages which none but the learned can understand, and which, when produced by a modern, the learned themselves care not to examine."
""Triplets are called dactyls or anapests in the official lingo, depending on whether they start with an upbeat or not," Chowder says, while discussing Tennyson."