Meter - Dactyl
In poetry a dactyl is a form of meter that consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
The word strawberry and the word poetry are both dactyllic.
A modern example is the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
- Picture your self in a boat on a river with
- tangerine tree-ees and marmalade skii-ii-es.
The oppposite of the dactyl is the anapest.