- In
poetic metre, a
trochee (/ˈtroʊkiː/) is a
metrical foot
consisting of a
stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed one, in
qualitative meter, as found...
- 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...
- syncopation. It is
derived here from its
theoretic unsyncopated form, a
repeated trochee (¯ ˘ ¯ ˘). A
backbeat transformation is
applied to "I" and "can't", and...
- 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...
-
short syllables occupying a foot,
replacing either an iamb (u –) or a
trochee (– u). In accentual-syllabic
verse (such as
formal English verse), the...
- 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 and
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic,
dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡
trochee, c****e – –
spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡
tribrach – ◡ ◡
dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach...
-
range of po****r clausulae. One of the most
common rhythms was
cretic +
trochee (– u – – x), for
example vīta trānscurrit or illa tempestās, and variations...
