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. Beekes has suggested that the Ancient Greek: 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...

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...

metrical feet of poetry: iamb (weak–strong), anapest (weak–weak–strong), trochee (strong–weak), dactyl (strong–weak–weak), and amphibrach (weak–strong–weak)...

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...

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 "-"...

Metrical feet and accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach...

syncopation. It is derived here from its theoretic unsyncopated form, a repeated trochee (¯ ˘ ¯ ˘). A backbeat transformation is applied to "I" and "can't", and...

four syllables in the pattern long-short-short-long (— ‿ ‿ —), that is, a trochee alternating with an iamb. Choriambs are one of the two basic metra that...

range of popular clausulae. One of the most common rhythms was cretic + trochee (– u – – x), for example vīta trānscurrit or illa tempestās, and variations...

syllable followed by a stressed syllable (e.g. des-cribe, in-clude, re-tract) trochee—one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (e.g. pic-ture...

Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee Blank verse "Poetry 101: What Is a Shakespearean Sonnet? Learn About Shakespearean...

Metrical feet and accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach...

either a spondee or a long syllable followed by one short syllable, a trochee(– ᴗ): 120 : 19 . The six feet and their variation is symbolically represented...

Metrical feet and accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach...

Metrical feet and accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach...

short syllables occupying a foot, replacing either an iamb (u –) or a trochee (– u). In accentual-syllabic verse (such as formal English verse), the...

two long syllables, as the above. Some start with an iamb (ᴗ –), or a trochee (– ᴗ). The following starts with an iamb (ᴗ –): ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ᴗ – – malest...

tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic octameter Arabic poetry Basīṭ Hazaj...

anapaests or trochaics". This comment about the absence of anapest and trochee has been interpreted to mean that the music was not based on the usual...

English Subject(s) Romanticism Lyric poetry Genre(s) Rhetorical Meter Trochee Rhyme scheme ABCBCB Publisher Heinemann, London John Lane, New York Publication...

Metrical feet and accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach...

predominantly trochaic. The last two syllables in each line had to form a trochee (there are a few specific forms which utilize a stressed word at line-end...

philosophical subtlety. The trochaic tetrameter catalectic—four pairs of trochees per line, with the final syllable omitted—was identified by Aristotle as...

mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition. In other words, a poetic line might have two iambs and two trochees, with a cretic...

tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic octameter Arabic poetry Basīṭ Hazaj...

brevis. "x x" is known as the Aeolic base, which can be a spondeus "– –", a trochee "– u", or an iamb "u –". The middle foot "– u u –" is a choriambus, as...