How To Use Trochaic In A Sentence
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The stanza is thus seen to comprise three tetrameter trochaic catalectic verses.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Iambic, Trochaic, and Anapaestic verses are further designated as dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, according to _the number of dipodies_ (pairs of feet) which they contain.
New Latin Grammar
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It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters (including their choliambic variants, and with the subsequent addition of the epodes and the asynarteta).
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If the first two syllables be regarded as anacrusis, the first line would be trochaic, with a dactyl substituted for a trochee in the second foot.
The Principles of English Versification
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Acceleration of the speed at which a simple trochaic succession is presented results thus, first, in a more rapid trochaic tempo, until the duration of two rhythm groups approaches more nearly to the period of subjective rhythmization, when -- the fundamental trochaism persisting -- the previous simple succession is replaced by a dipodic structure in which the phases of major and minor accentuation correspond to the elementary opposition of accented and unaccented phases.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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trochaic dactyl
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The Stabat Mater is composed of six-lines stanzas of trochaic dimeters, the third and sixth lines being catalectic.
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The only notable exceptions are the trochaic tetrameters of ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ and the iambic tetrameters of Sonnet 145.
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The metre which was his favourite, and which he used with most success -- the trochaic dimeter catalectic of seven syllables -- lends itself almost as readily as the octosyllable to this frequently fatal fluency; but in Wither's hands, at least in his youth and early manhood, it is wonderfully successful, as here: --
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The former is trochaicthe latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic.
The Philosophy of Composition
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In like manner we have _trochaic monometer_, _dimeter_, _trimeter_,
Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
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Above that would come trochaic verse, and we should rise to higher planes of exaltation as we read the anapæstic, or cretic, or bacchiac.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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—“trochaic octameter with lines two and four catalectic.”
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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Unlike most English adjectives, ‘catalectic’ and its opposite ‘acatalectic’ usually follow the nouns they qualify: thus the last of Shelley's lines quoted above would be called a trochaic trimeter catalectic.
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Poems in iambic dimeters and trimeters are found in abundance in her first book, as are poems written in trochaic measure.
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It actually disables any understanding of the poem to say that what he’s doing is trochaic octameter.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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The poem is in trochaic tetrameter with catalexis at the end of each line.
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The former is trochaicthe latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic.
The Philosophy of Composition
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Acceleration of the speed at which a simple trochaic succession is presented results thus, first, in a more rapid trochaic tempo, until the duration of two rhythm groups approaches more nearly to the period of subjective rhythmization, when -- the fundamental trochaism persisting -- the previous simple succession is replaced by a dipodic structure in which the phases of major and minor accentuation correspond to the elementary opposition of accented and unaccented phases.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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The former is trochaicthe latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic.
The Philosophy of Composition
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The new metre is most likely to result from poems written in what are called trochaics, or two-syllabled feet stressed on the first syllable.
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I would never think trochaic tetrameters would be so fresh, but the main quality of the Kalevala is how simple it seems, how fresh and uncomplicated, how like the dawn of the world.
The Music of Reading « Unknowing
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Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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If you listen to the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter.
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If this is done there will be in common English verse only two possible feetthe so-called accentual Trochee and Dactyl, and correspondingly only two possible uniform rhythms, the so-called Trochaic and Dactylic.
Author’s Preface
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_̷ ◡ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ that is, 5-stress trochaic, with dactylic substitution in the first foot and truncation or catalexis of the last foot in the second and fourth lines; or perhaps iambic, with anapestic substitution in the second foot and a feminine ending in the first and third lines.
The Principles of English Versification
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The metre is the trochaic tetrameter, which is always well suited to the Latin language, and which here appears treated with Greek strictness, except that in lines 55, 62, 91, a spondee is used in the fifth foot instead of a trochee.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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Before, I had noted in passing that I wasn't seeing much metrical verse when I looked for cards, but this was the first time I specifically set out to find a card with something resembling ABAB and trochaic trimeter, or whatever.
Unexpected difficulties
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To our ear it is quite out of the question; and, moreover, we affirm that in dissyllabic (which we, for want of a better name, call iambic and trochaic) measures the omission of a half-foot is an impossibility, and all the more so when, as in this case, the preceding syllable is strongly accented.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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By itself the fourth line would be called iambic: in this context it is called trochaic with 'anacrusis,' i. e., with one or more extra-metrical syllables at the beginning. [
The Principles of English Versification
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But if you listen at the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter.
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This form of the Trochaic is sometimes called Anacreontic, but very erroneously, as Anacreon's metre is quite different.
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The first line's primarily iambic structure separates it from the second, fourth and fifth lines trochaic feet.
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The auditory ease of the merry mockeries of maidens is abruptly undermined by the trochaic retarding of the ‘sharp voices’ insisting on ‘maiden labour.’
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He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.
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'threnos' is in five three-lined stanzas, also in trochaics, each stanza having a single rhyme.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
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In nondramatic poetry, she suggests, trochaic tetrameter seems associated with happy love and iambic tetrameter with unhappy love.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He has harmony without melody; he invents and executes marvellous variations upon verse; he has footed the tight-rope of the galliambic measure and the swaying planks of various trochaic experiments; but his resolve to astonish is stronger than his desire to charm, and he lets technical skill carry him into such excesses of ugliness in verse as technical skill carried Liszt, and sometimes Berlioz, in music.
Figures of Several Centuries
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This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it.
The Principles of English Versification
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These examples have a military marching rhythm to them, but it is possible, with alliteration, assonance and heavier syllables in those unstressed positions, to give the verses a more ambiguous feel, so that they seem to go back and forth more readily between a straight iambic (or trochaic) and a dipodic sound — such as the Hardy poem Steve discusses in his post.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The lines gradually increase from a trochaic monometer catalectic to a complicated decamter of spondees, anapaests, paeons, and dactyls.
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His infantile trochaics addressed to children (‘Dimply damsel, sweetly smiling’, etc.) earned him the nickname of ‘Namby Pamby’, though Johnson described them as his pleasantest pieces.
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The first, second and sixth lines clearly begin with a trochaic foot, while the third, fourth, fifth and seventh lines contain an extra unaccented syllable.
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I'm going full-out: trochaic octameter (I am too verbose for iambic pentameter) with internal and cross-line rhyme.
MentalPolyphonics
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Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
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The Stabat Mater has two qualities that most scholars date from the twelfth century: an intricate rhyme scheme and a regular meter usually trochaic....
Archive 2009-04-01
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Not only the syllabic arrangement, but the accentuation is the same; whereas in Latin, the accentuation is often counter; that is, an iambic dimeter in the Hirmos is answered by a trochaic dimeter in the Troparion.
Hymns of the Eastern Church
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Trochaics have rarely been more amusingly used than in Lewis Carroll's 'Hiawatha's Photographing', in which Hiawatha is exasperatedly trying to take portraits of a very tiresome and camera-conscious Victorian family.
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Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections.
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Moreover, there are in the language so many dissyllabic words of trochaic movement that the resulting frequent coincidence of word and foot tends to produce monotony.
The Principles of English Versification
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A fierce opponent of literary plagiarism, Poe claims originality for his stanza form in ‘The Raven’: trochaic rhythm; octameter acatalectic alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in refrain of fifth verse.
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Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.
Cole Porter in the Summer, When It Sizzles — If They Say That These Lyrics Heinous, Kick Them Right in the Coriolanus « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Calendars begins with the cadenced trochaic tetrameter rhythms of ‘Landing Under Water, I See Roots’.
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The Epicharmus presented, in trochaic septenarii of the theatrical type, an account of the gods and the physical operations of the universe.
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We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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Poems in iambic dimeters and trimeters are found in abundance in her first book, as are poems written in trochaic measure.
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Beyond this, except by the rather violent hypothesis of copyist misdeeds above referred to, [196] nobody has been able to get further in a generalisation of the metre than that the normal form is an eight and six (better a seven and seven) "fourteener," trochaically cadenced, but admitting contraction and extension with a liberality elsewhere unparalleled.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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But I hear it as a shifting dactylic/trochaic meter that periodically emerges as a series ofiambs.
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