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If you listen to the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter.
Sometimes, a dreadful thought comes over me that I may have been guilty of the immoral effeminacy of using trochaic and tribrachic movements.
Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
The first line's primarily iambic structure separates it from the second, fourth and fifth lines trochaic feet.
The Stabat Mater is composed of six-lines stanzas of trochaic dimeters, the third and sixth lines being catalectic.
He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.
The Epicharmus presented, in trochaic septenarii of the theatrical type, an account of the gods and the physical operations of the universe.
Poems in iambic dimeters and trimeters are found in abundance in her first book, as are poems written in trochaic measure.
But if you listen at the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter.
The lines gradually increase from a trochaic monometer catalectic to a complicated decamter of spondees, anapaests, paeons, and dactyls.
It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters.
The most common of the long lines that appeared around the beginning of the twentieth century is the trochaic octameter, generally containing fifteen or sixteen syllables.
Redondilla, a Spanish stanza form consisting of four trochaic lines, usually of eight syllables each, with a rhyme scheme of abba.
The poem is in trochaic tetrameter with catalexis at the end of each line.
The poetic and the prosaic divide Paul's attention as he talks about anything from trochaic octameter to mowing his lawn.
I would call it the trochaic trimeter catalectic, though English march is better.
Its cumbersome technical name is the trochaic tetrameter catalectic, where catalectic means lacking the final syllable.
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.
It is a single quatrain with external rhymes that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre, which is common in nursery rhymes.
Trochaic metres were extensively used in ancient Greek and Latin tragedy and comedy in a form, particularly favoured by Plautus and Terence, called trochaic catalectic tetrameter.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In the iambic and trochaic metres other feet are often substituted for the iambus and the trochee, but without change of rhythm.
Shelley's To a Skylark is in trochaic metre of 3-stress and 6-stress lines.
How, then, let us ask the challenger, is the application of the trochaic system justified?
Corresponding short trochaic lines result from the acatalectic trochaic tetrameter broken by leonine or inserted rhyme.
Sometimes, in the same way as with the first, a syllable is dropped at the opening, and the half-line becomes similarly trochaic.
The Greek trochaic tetrameter, similarly, contains eight trochees, the English 'trochaic tetrameter' but four.
It does not admit of frequent substitutions, for many substitutions destroy the trochaic effect.
In St. Austin's poem he united to a trochaic measure the novel attraction of rhyme.
The last line, however, full of tenderness and sadness, is trochaic.
There is a tremendous shift from the falling trochaic rhythms in the first sentence to the rising and varied metrical feet that follow in the description of the wind's motion.
The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the Satyric order, and had greater affinities with dancing.
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