Trochaic tetrameter
Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of four trochaic feet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that ...
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Trochaic substitution
Trochaic substitution A trochaic substitution occurs when a trochee replaces an ... syllable followed by a slacked syllable (/ -). A trochaic substitution is often used to emphasize a ...
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Talk:Iambic pentameter
... body -- there was already an example of trochaic inversion coming up in the next sentence ... example). This is a poor example of trochaic inversion, since the line is almost always ... iambic inversion' and this was changed to 'trochaic inversion'. I think both terms are potentially ... foot is relatively rare' rather than 'the trochaic inversion of the second foot ...'. I recommend ... 55, 14 December 2005 (UTC) I used trochaic inversion (and renamed it trochaic inversion) ...
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Dr. Seuss
... the original. Seuss also wrote verse in trochaic tetrameter, an arrangement of four units each ... Red Fish, Blue Fish. The formula for trochaic meter permits the final weak position in ... the construction of rhymes. Seuss generally maintained trochaic meter only for brief passages, and for ... books are either uniformly anapestic or iambic-trochaic, a few mix triple and double rhythms ... in anapestic tetrameter, but breaks into iambo-trochaic meter for the "Dr. Derring's ...
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Archilochus
... and of poems in the iambic and trochaic measures. Greek rhetors credited him with the ... known as the iambic trimeter and the trochaic tetrameter. The trochaic metre he generally used for subjects of ...
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Hexameter dactylic   (translated from French)
Hexameter dactylic So certain characters of this article are posted badly (square vacuums, question marks...), consult the page Unicode . hexameter dactylic is one measure especially used in old Greek and in latin . One finds some also, more rarely, in anglais . It is the meter par excellence of epopee and of ...
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Catalectic
... Head, My Love". The first is in trochaic tetrameter, and the second in trochaic tetrameter catalectic. By the shores of Gitche ...
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Gaius Lucilius
... to xxix., which were written in the trochaic and iambic metres that had been employed ... fragments, he seems to have written the trochaic tetrameter with a smoothness, clearness and simplicity ...
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Talk:The Song of Hiawatha
... 1] but translations generally use a stricter trochaic tetrameter. "... the meter comes not from the ... converts the octosyllabics of the Finnish into trochaic tetrameter, a pounding meter in German. You ...
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Trochee
... yields. Perhaps owing to its simplicity, though, trochaic meter is fairly common in children's ... of the night These lines are primarily trochaic, with the last syllable dropped so that ...
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