How To Use trochaic In A Sentence
- Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
- But if you listen at the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter.
- This form of the Trochaic is sometimes called Anacreontic, but very erroneously, as Anacreon's metre is quite different.
- The first line's primarily iambic structure separates it from the second, fourth and fifth lines trochaic feet.
- The auditory ease of the merry mockeries of maidens is abruptly undermined by the trochaic retarding of the ‘sharp voices’ insisting on ‘maiden labour.’
- He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.
- '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
- In nondramatic poetry, she suggests, trochaic tetrameter seems associated with happy love and iambic tetrameter with unhappy love. The Times Literary Supplement
- 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
- This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it. The Principles of English Versification
