Dactyls – according to encyclopaedic wise men –
though the staple of classical Grecian and Latinate tread,
are now comical – ‘only used humorously’… And yet, read
at a funeral pace, in solemnity, toll out the dead…
(with acknowledgements to M.G. and the Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry…)
Michael Shepherd
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/do-pterodactyls-write-in-dactyls/
