Dactylic Meter - similarly, the dactylic meter is also made up of units of three syllables.

One foot can be called a dactyl, and the accent here is on the first syllable. We can express this as "DUM-de-de", and an example of the dactyl is the word "CELebrate". A line of dactylic meter from Longfellow's Evangeline is: "THIS is the | FORest pri | MEval. The | MURmuring | PINES and the | HEMlocks" (ONE and a | TWO and a | THREE and a | FOUR and a | FIVE and a | SIX and) - note here that the final dactyl has been replaced with a trochee Dactylic monometer: "Dreaming of monsters that frighten me" (DREAMing of / MONsters that / FRIGHTen me) Dactylis trimeter: "Follow me, though you are slumbering" (FOLLow me | THOUGH you are | SLUMbering) Dactylic Trimeter HOMEward we WALKED through the WILderness WEARily WAVing to PASSers by. Tetrameter (Te-TRAM-e-ter) The tetrameter is a line with four metrical feet.

Dactylic tetrameter:
Down in the | val-leys the | sha-dows are | thick-en-ing; Stars com-ing | on and the | lights of the | hou-ses . . .

Dactylic Tetrameter UPon the HILLS where the FAIRies are LINgering PONder the MOment as WISTfully DREAMings go DOWN in my VALleys of BEAUtiful FANtasy Pentameter (Pen-TAM-e-ter)
Probably the most well-known of metric lines, and the most widely used in the English language, the pentameter is made up of five metrical feet. It is the "heroic line" used by Shakespeare and other dramatists, Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales and many other classic poets and writers.

Dactylic Pentameter COME to the BANquet ye BRAVest of BATtle-scarred WARriors WEAR ye the TROphies of VICtory; HIDE all thy WEARiness

Hexameter (Hex-AM-e-ter)
This metric line has...yes...six feet! Hexameter written in certain metric feet, particularly anapestic and trochaic, is rare. However it is quite often used to vary the movement of a stanza written mainly in iambic pentameter. A line of iambic hexameter is also known as alexandrine. Some use it also to extend blank verse or in heroic couplets. The hexameter usually carries a slow, stately movement. Dactylic hexameter: "Faint was the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms..." (FAINT was the | AIR with the | Odorous | BREATH of mag | NOlia | BLOSSoms...) - from Longfellow's "Evangeline"