III. Dactylic hexameter is the meter used by Ovid in the (and by Metamorphoses Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey)…only dactyls and spondees are used. A dactyl is a finger…one long bone and two short bones a dactylic foot is – u u marked over the vowels. –
III. Dactylic hexameter is the meter used by Ovid in the Metamorphoses (and by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey)…only dactyls and spondees are used. A dactyl is a finger…one long bone and two short bones – a dactylic foot is marked – u u over the vowels.