dactylic
/dækˈtɪlɪk/
adjective
- Relating to or consisting of dactyls (a metrical foot of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables).
- She studied the dactylic rhythm of the verse to understand its musical quality.
- The poem is written in dactylic hexameter, a meter common in ancient epics.
- Many nursery rhymes have a dactylic feel, like 'Hickory Dickory Dock'.