- 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...
- 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...
-
place the stresses.
Although in this
meter the foot is no
longer iambs but
trochees.)[original research?] A horse! A horse! My
kingdom for a horse! (William...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
short syllables occupying a foot,
replacing either an iamb (u –) or a
trochee (– u). In accentual-syllabic
verse (such as
formal English verse), the...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Sagar said, "Hughes
rejected the
Latinate iamb in
favour of
bludgeoning trochees and spondees. The
strong alliteration, onomatopoeia, and
hyperbole gave...
