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Trochee

noun
1.
A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables.





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"Trochee" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'precipice'; 'aconitum' (Shakespeare) 'aconite'; 'balsamum' (Webster) 'balsam'; 'heliotropium' (Holland) 'heliotrope'; 'helleborum' (North) 'hellebore'; 'vehiculum' (Howe) 'vehicle'; 'trochaeus' and 'spondaeus' (Holland) 'trochee' and 'spondee'; and 'machina' (Henry More) 'machine'. We have 'intervalla', not 'intervals', in Chillingworth; 'postulata', not 'postulates', in Swift; 'archiva', not 'archives', in Baxter; 'demagogi', not 'demagogues', in Hacket; 'vestigium', not 'vestige', in Culverwell; ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... a spondee from a tribrach they vapour about prosody, of which they know nothing, and imagine to be new what antedates the Upanishads. The haunting beauty of Mr. de la Mare's delicate art springs from an ear of superlative tenderness and sophistication. The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls. Probably this artifice is greatly unconscious, the meed of the trained musician; but let no singer think to upraise his voice before the Lord ere ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley


Words linked to "Trochee" :   foot, metrical foot, metrical unit, trochaic


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