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dactyl

(n): a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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5 months ago chained_bear said:

"...he was surprised to hear Rowan say 'I may not know what a dactyl is, but I do know that Will you take A piece of cake is poetry, whatever you may say. It rhymes, don't it? And if what rhymes ain't poetry, what is?'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 171

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