trochee

• Scott's Boat Song is a very fine example of dactylic tetrameter_, in which the last foot consists either of a trochee (see page 16) or of a single accented syllable. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
• His imagination is too bold to be confined by the petty limits of trochee or iambus. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• The presence of a trochee is no blemish, but a relief Vailing her high tops higher than her ribs. —  An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
• The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle. —  Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
• The sixth foot may be either a spondee or a trochee, since the final syllable of a verse may be either long or short (syllaba anceps). —  New Latin Grammar

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