Dactylic
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A metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables followed by an unstressed syllable. An example from Phillip Brooks's poem, "Christmas Everywhere", is a good example:
| “ | Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight. Christmas in the lands of the fir-tree and pines. |
” |
It is like the reverse of the anapestic (a metrical foot that is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed.)