If you listen to the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter. |
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Sometimes, a dreadful thought comes over me that I may have been guilty of the immoral effeminacy of using trochaic and tribrachic movements. |
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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 first line's primarily iambic structure separates it from the second, fourth and fifth lines trochaic feet. |
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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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He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines. |
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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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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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But if you listen at the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter. |
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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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It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters. |
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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. |
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Redondilla, a Spanish stanza form consisting of four trochaic lines, usually of eight syllables each, with a rhyme scheme of abba. |
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The poem is in trochaic tetrameter with catalexis at the end of each line. |
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The poetic and the prosaic divide Paul's attention as he talks about anything from trochaic octameter to mowing his lawn. |
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I would call it the trochaic trimeter catalectic, though English march is better. |
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Its cumbersome technical name is the trochaic tetrameter catalectic, where catalectic means lacking the final syllable. |
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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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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. |
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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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This form of the Trochaic is sometimes called Anacreontic, but very erroneously, as Anacreon's metre is quite different. |
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