| This is matched by the metre where, however, intricate use of trochees and dactyls gives a song-like quality to the verse. |
| So I know if the language has iambs or trochees, right from the start. |
| The ithyphallic, which was marked by a succession of three trochees at the end of the line, was the most distinguished. |
| Mansfield's rhythmic shifts, a mixture of trochees, iambs, and anapaest, convey the uncertainty of early love. |
| The Greek trochaic tetrameter, similarly, contains eight trochees, the English 'trochaic tetrameter' but four. |
| In poetry, Choriambi are never used alone, but always combined with other metrical 'feet' such as spondees, trochees and dactyls. |
