| The symbol for a trochee on page 134 is shown like this: |. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
His imagination is too bold to be confined by the petty limits of trochee or iambus. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Items really worth noting are the perl script that trochee points to, and the Java applet that shawnj noted. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday Stuff] Reference
He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
The sixth foot may be either a spondee or a trochee, since the final syllable of a verse may be either long or short. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] 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
Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
There shall be six feet in each line, dactyls or spondees, and the fifth foot shall be a dactyl and the sixth a spondee or a trochee. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917] Reference
INVERSION, the substitution of a trochee for an iamb or of a dactyl for an anapest (or vice versa), 51, 187 ff.; a misleading term; see. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
SUBSTITUTION (1) replacing one rhythmic unit by its temporal equivalent, as an iamb by an anapest or by a trochee, etc., 20; called also. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Two types were chosen, the trochee and the dactyl. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
The presence of a trochee is no blemish, but a relief. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway] Reference
Sometimes a trochee is found in the midst of this verse. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
I bet only 1 in 16,553,385 people know what a trochee is. filistro said. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Fireball] Reference
Pickup from a trochee, followed by 2 dactyls, trochee then a partial trochee. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
In like manner he will pronounce wrong the trochee in the middle of the line. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
The prolongation of the foot pause would make the dactyl but a modified trochee. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Yet it is very common for the first foot of the line to be a trochee as in this verse. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
In parisyllabic verse, when a trochee begins the verse, he will pronounce that foot wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
The final trochee, a long and a short syllable, rhymes with the following or preceding line. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot -- Around. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
I know not how it is with you who are really a Poet; and perhaps you may think I am as wrong about my trochee as about my iambic. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II] Reference
Metrical foot comprising an iambus followed by a trochee. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
| be said to complete the final trochee of the previous line: |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
‘trochæus’ and ‘spondæus’ (Holland) ‘trochee’ and ‘spondee’; and. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
◡ - had the musical value of ♪ ♩, a trochee of ♩ ♪, a dactyl of ♩ ♪ ♪, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
A trochee, or tribrach, will do very well. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
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