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:''For the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry, see Alcmanian verse.'' 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. ==Example== 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 stressed syllable would make a dactylic tetrameter like the following: The following lines from The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" demonstrate this, the scansion being: Another example, from Browning: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「dactylic tetrameter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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