trochees

We were told, of course, that it was not all quite as simple as this: that there were frequent metrical variations, such as trochees changing places with dactyls, and anapests with iambi; that feet could be inverted, so that a trochaic line might begin with an iambus, an anapestic line with a dactyl, or _vice versa_; that syllables might be omitted at the beginning or the end or even in the middle of a line, and that this "cutting-off" was called _catalexis_; that syllables might even be added at the beginning or end of certain lines and that these syllables were called

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

'trochees' ... and no less a person than Mr. Tennyson, who said to somebody who repeated it, that in the want of harmony lay the chief defect of the poems, 'although it might verily be retrieved, as he could fancy that I had an ear by nature.'

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

'trochees' ... and no less a person than Mr. Tennyson, who said to somebody who repeated it, that in the want of harmony lay the chief defect of the poems, 'although it might verily be retrieved, as he could fancy that I had an ear by nature.'

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

While Blake's original uses trochees, it is the disruption of such that truly shapes the rhythm.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

There is nothing in the sphere of the sublime, that is so lowering as broken and agitated movement of language, such as is characteristic of pyrrhics and trochees and dichorees, which fall altogether to the level of dance-music.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet 2010

Pretty straightforward iambic pentameter, except for the strong trochaic substitution in the first line and the two trochees that open line10.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet 2010

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 2010

Pretty straightforward iambic pentameter, except for the strong trochaic substitution in the first line and the two trochees that open line10.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet 2010

Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet 2010