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considered to be a trochee. The
adjective form is
trochaic. The
English word
trochee is
itself trochaic since it is
composed of the
stressed syllable /ˈtroʊ/...
- In
English poetry,
trochaic tetrameter is a
meter featuring lines composed of four
trochaic feet. The
etymology of
trochaic derives from the Gr**** trokhaios...
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Trochaic octameter is a
poetic meter with
eight trochaic metrical feet per line. Each foot has one
stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed syllable...
- In
ancient Gr**** and
Latin literature, the
trochaic septenarius (also
known as the
trochaic tetrameter catalectic) is a form of
ancient poetic metre first...
- of "da DUM", a
trochaic substitution would introduce a foot of "DUM da". In a line of
verse that
normally employs iambic meter,
trochaic substitution describes...
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pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/
Trochaic Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic octameter Arabic poetry Basīṭ
Hazaj Kāmil Mutaqārib Madīd...
- Occasionally, as an
alternative to iambic, Gr****
playwrights use
trochaic feet, as in the
trochaic tetrameter catalectic.
According to
Aristotle (Poet. 1449a21)...
- even-numbered syllables, or on the
first syllable, in the case of an
initial trochaic inversion. It is not the case, as is
often alleged, that
iambic pentameter...
- "Because I
could not stop for Death" (Emily ****inson,
eponymous lyric)
Trochaic tetrameter: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" (English
nursery rhyme) Dactylic...
- and
trochaic septenarii. As far as is known,
iambic senarii were
spoken without music;
trochaic septenarii (and also
iambic septenarii and
trochaic and...
