Dactylic pentameter is a form of meter in poetry. The dactyl, which is made of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, is repeated five times to create a pentameter line. In modern poetry, a simple form of dactylic pentameter can be seen in Stan Galloway's poem "Angels' First Assignment," the first two lines of which read: "Are you still standing there east of the Garden of Eden, or / were you relieved by the flood that revised our geography?"