- 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...
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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
ancient Gr**** and
Latin literature, the
trochaic septenarius (also
known as the
trochaic tetrameter catalectic) is a form of
ancient poetic metre first...
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Departure Hence": Thus I P****e by, And die: As one, Unknown, And gone.
Trochaic Foot (prosody)
Works of
Robert Herrick Vol 1 ed.
Alfred Pollard, Lawrence...
- 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...
- 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...
- "Because I
could not stop for Death" (Emily ****inson,
eponymous lyric)
Trochaic tetrameter: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" (English
nursery rhyme) Dactylic...
- of
eight metrical feet. It is not very
common in
English verse. E.g.: -
Trochaic Once upon a
midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and
weary Over many...
