Another name formerly used for a trochee was a choree (/ˈkɔːriː/), or choreus. Trochee comes from French trochée, adapted from Latin trochaeus, originally...

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...

Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee The Ants Go Marching Blank verse "Poetry 101: What Is a Shakespearean Sonnet...

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...

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...

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

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

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, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach...

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...

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...

Word 1 Word 2 Word 3 Word 4 Word 5 Word 6 dactyl trochee iamb molossus dactyl trochee adjective, neuter plural nominative (or accusative) noun, neuter...

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

1957, including a Somerset Maugham Award. The work favoured hard-hitting trochees and spondees reminiscent of Middle English — a style he used throughout...

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...

stressed syllables, five of which are stressed but do not rhyme. Trochee–A trochee is a two-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which a stressed syllable...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

appear in phonetic transcription, descriptions of phonological processes, trochees, phonemes, morphophonemes, natural classes, semantic features such as animacy...

hour takes the metrical shape of trochees, everybody writes trochaics, talks trochaics, and think [sic] in trochees: ... "By the way, the rise in Erie...

meanings in ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. For example, it means trochee in Sanskrit prosody. Tāla (ताळ) is a Sanskrit word, which means 'being...

feel to the language, with 2- and 4-syllable words being always perfect trochees: dácham, "ten"; kúshla, "back"; mága, "can"; shàwikwála, "shepherd"; shìyugwáyfa...

Philosopher; author of "Historia Cómica do Affonso Çapateiro" 46 Professor Trochee Proto-heteronym / Pseudonym Author of an essay with humorous advice for...