trochaic dactyl. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is what has been heretofore called trochaic verse. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
The metre is the eight-syllable trochaic, which is the commonest metre used by the Esthonians and Finns. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country] Reference
The trochaic line is generally stiff and thumping. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Most are iambic senarii, some trochaic septenarii. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Is Shelley's To Night prevailingly iambic or trochaic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Most years in this century will be trochaic tum-ti tum-ti tum etc. From Wordnik.com. [On tens, teens, or whatever] Reference
Four lines, twelve syllables trochaic, caesura at seventh syllable. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
To the Small Celandine. is unmistakably trochaic; but in Tennyson's. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
And oft, as if her head she bow'd; some that are purely trochaic, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Shelley's To a Skylark is in trochaic metre of 3-stress and 6-stress lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
With the word “kinsmen,” the poem begins to take on more trochaic feel. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Finch reads Claude McKay] Reference
He uses in them iambic, trochaic and especially dactyllic-anapaestic metres which. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody] Reference
I liked my name, the alliteration of it, the solidity of its four trochaic syllables. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirty Life] Reference
The bridge is less easy to pin down, moving from iambic to trochaic to dactylic rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Ramble On Rose"] Reference
The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
It does not admit of frequent substitutions, for many substitutions destroy the trochaic effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
But I hear it as a shifting dactylic/trochaic meter that periodically emerges as a series ofiambs. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
Two of the short lines are definitely iambic, the other eight are doubtful, but apparently trochaic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Puck is fond of trochaic tetrameter in couplets, that is, four-beat verse starling off on a stressed syllable. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
I am mistaken, he spoke of an iambic as well as of a trochaic rhythm, and assigned to them short and long quantities. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
The trochee is too much akin to wild dancing: we can see this in tetrameter verse, which is one of the trochaic rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
One of the most successful metrically of purely trochaic poems is Browning's One Word More, a few lines of which are quoted on page 70. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Your reviewer goes on to say that "journey and pity are trochaic nouns which have a weak assonance in common but no overlap of meaning.". From Wordnik.com. [Journey and Pity] Reference
If the last foot is not full, the line is trochaic. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky in regards to trochaic tetrameter of. From Wordnik.com. [Ecstatic Days] Reference
In Washington, "'robust' public option" is what passes for trochaic trimeter. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
In this stanza the prevailing foot is iambic, but the first foot is trochaic. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
The majority of trochaic lines leads us to decide that the verse is trochaic. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
He explains in a footnote that the metre is "a mixed trochaic, except the chorus.". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3] Reference
From this example one learns to appreciate how nearly alike are trochaic and iambic verses. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
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