Verse or poetry composed in dactylic meter, or the study of dactylic patterns in poetry.
From dactylic + -s (plural/noun-forming suffix). This noun form refers to works of poetry or the academic study of dactylic meter in literature.
Most of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad are in dactylics—entire epics marching along to that finger-bone rhythm for thousands of lines!
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