(1) Southey agrees, however, that the foot before the final trochee should always be a dactyl .(2) His rhythmic faculties drive anthology-pieces like u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510The Danceu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, whose dactyls skip happily over its line breaks.(3) Thus a pattern consisting of five iambs would be an iambic pentameter; a pattern consisting of six dactyls would be a dactylic hexameter; and so on.(4) My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls .(5) His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.