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