- In
poetic metre, a
trochee (/ˈtroʊkiː/ TROH-kee) is a
metrical foot
consisting of a
stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed one, in
qualitative meter...
- four
syllables in length. The most
common feet in
English are the iamb,
trochee, dactyl, and anapaest. The foot
might be
compared to a bar, or a beat divided...
- on the
first syllable, in
modern linguistics it is
considered to be a
trochee. R. S. P. B****es has
suggested that the
Ancient Gr****: ἴαμβος
iambos has...
- the / hemlocks, The
first five feet of the line are dactyls; the
sixth a
trochee.
Stephen Fry
quotes Robert Browning's poem "The Lost Leader" as an example...
- them. The
fifth is
almost always a dactyl, and last must be a
spondee /
trochee (together
forming an adonic).
Exceptions can
occur when a polysyllabic...
-
metrical feet of poetry: iamb (weak–strong),
anapest (weak–weak–strong),
trochee (strong–weak),
dactyl (strong–weak–weak), and
amphibrach (weak–strong–weak)...
- poetry, a
trochee is a foot
consisting of a
stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed syllable. Thus a
tetrameter contains four
trochees or
eight syllables...
-
hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying structure: two
trochees,
followed by a dactyl, then two more
trochees. In the
Sapphic stanza,
three hendecasyllabics are...
- syncopation. It is
derived here from its
theoretic unsyncopated form, a
repeated trochee (¯ ˘ ¯ ˘). A
backbeat transformation is
applied to "I" and "can't", and...
- verse, a five-syllable
metrical foot
consisting of a
dactyl followed by a
trochee. The last line of a
Sapphic stanza is an adonic. The
pattern (where "-"...
