Dactylic tetrameter
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Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four dactylic feet. "Tetrameter" simply means four poetic feet. Each foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, the opposite of an anapest, sometimes called antidactylus to reflect this fact.
A dactylic foot is one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones:
A dactylic tetrameter would therefore be:
Scanning this using an "x" to represent an unstressed syllable and a "/" to represent a...
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