Dactylic rhyme

Dactylic rhyme is a rhyme with the stress on the third syllable from the end, when two unstressed syllables follow the stressed one. Its clausula is trisyllabic, and therefore such a rhyme sounds especially melodious, expansive and slowed, lending the line a folk or elegiac colouring. Dactylic rhymes often occur in stylisations of folk song and in lyric with a singing intonation. The type of rhyme is again determined by the structure of the clausula: two unstressed syllables after the stress make the rhyme dactylic. The alternation of dactylic rhymes with masculine and feminine ones yields a rich, varied rhythmic pattern of the stanza.