How To Use trochee In A Sentence
- His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
- He points out that bacchiacs, common in other plays, are rare here, and so are anapaests, and considers this to be because they are by nature slow, compared with the faster cretics and trochees, and it is true that this play (for whatever reason) does move at a great pace.
- And the initial anapestic foot of the second line seems to slide down after the discovery in the first line that not trochees but iambs are afoot. The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing
- A trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.
- The singers have been induced to make their own selections, and put forward, as Mr. Browning says, their best foot, anapaest or trochee, or whatever it may be. Letters on Literature
- In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
- A trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.
- In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
- English verse only two possible feet -- the so-called accentual Trochee and Dactyl, and correspondingly only two possible uniform rhythms, the so-called Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published
- Fanniae of our day to talk of varying the trochee with the iambus, or of resolving either into the tribrach. Famous Reviews
