Thus Pope's Iliad is written in iambic pentameter, in lines made up of five iambics; and Longfellow's Hiawatha is trochaic tetrameter, each line containing four trochees.
We must therefore conclude that the tenth [the metre of six trochees] is the longest species of Trochaic line known to English verse.
Hart says of it: "This is the longest Trochaic verse that seems to have been cultivated.
His Il Penseroso, or Grave Mood, has twenty-seven trochaic tetrameters, mixed irregularly with one hundred and forty-nine iambics.
The example may quite as well be regarded either as Trochaic Dimeter, cataletic, or as Amphimacric Monometer, acatalectic.
This passage, or some part of it, is given as a trochaic example, in many different systems of prosody.
An estimable author now living says, "Trochaic verse, with an additional long syllable, is the same as iambic verse, without the initial short syllable.
IX 1 This hymn, which first introduced into sacred song the trochaic metre familiar in Greek Tragedy and the Latin adaptations of it, supplies the Moz.
The first and third are prose translations, the second and fourth are in blank trochaic pentameters, and the last is a prose translation with occasional passages in trochaic pentameters.
In its metrical form the poem attempts to express the lovableness of the 'eternal-womanly' by means of a lightly flowing dactylic measure, while a heavier trochaic cadence is employed to denote the nature of man: Ehret die Frauen!
The master's orders are given in a lively trochaic measure, while the homilies move at a slower gait in iambic lines of varying length.
Merry Minutes," a poem in trochaic measure by Olive G.
Equally effective is the simple metrical transition whereby the chorus assumes the trochaic measure of a childhood chant or carol: "Lightly O, brightly O, Down the long lane she will go!
There is much more to be thought about than the placing of four trochaic feet to a line.
We may now sum it up thus--trochaic verse of eight syllables, with alliteration and rhyme, a caesura in the same part of every line, and every line reiterated in parallelism.
The originals (and Miss Rootham's versions) are all in trochaic decasyllabics.
How, then, let us ask the challenger, is the application of the trochaic system justified?
He finds existing systems of prosody neither complete nor sound, and would sweep them away in order to install his own trochaic scheme.
When the feet are accented on the first syllable--as in trochaic or dactylic verse--a syllable may be omitted from the end of a line as in the second and fourth below.
Find three poems written in iambic verse, and three written in trochaic verse.
So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc.
Their rhyme, if not quite pure, is abundant and catching, and their nearest metrical affinity would be a trochaic dimeter.
This was the thirteen-syllable trochaic line, with its lilting change of stress after the seventh syllable, and its pure two-syllable rhyme.
Trochaic and iambic rhythms then constituted the chief measures for accentual verse, as they had for centuries, and do still.
He wrote two famous hymns, one of them in the popular trochaic tetrameter, the other in the equally simple iambic dimeter.
Only as it attained its perfected strophic forms, it necessarily made use oftrochaic and other rhythms which long before had changed from quantity to accent and so had passed on into the verse-making habitudes of the Middle Ages.
They are all in rhyming Latin, and chiefly, though with exceptions, in the loose trochaic metre called Leonine.
All the nations of Europe seem to love the trochaic verse; it was frequent on the Greek and Roman stage; it is more common than any other in the popular poetry of modern languages.
In St. Austin's poem he united to a trochaic measure the novel attraction of rhyme.
The fourth Trochaic species consists of four trochees, as: "Ugh!
The shortest Trochaic verse in the English language consists of one Trochee and a long syllable: as, "Billy Black Got the sack.
The second English form of theTrochaic consists of two feet: as, "Vermicelli, Cuerrant jelly.
Bouterwek has supposed that this alternation, which is nothing else than the trochaic verse of Greek and Latin poetry, was preserved traditionally in Spain from the songs of the Roman soldiers.
The metres are those usual in Spanish; some versos de arte mayor; but the greater part in trochaic redondillas.
The former of these poems is in a loose trochaic measure, totally destitute of regard to grammatical inflections.
Like The Ancestress, A Dream is Life is written in short trochaic verses of irregular length and with occasional rhyme.
The fifthTrochaic species is likewise uncommon; and, as a Bowbellian would say, “uncommon” ugly.
The fourth Trochaic species consists of four trochees: as, “Ūgh!
We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable.
It might be described as an iambic hepthemimer followed by a trochaic dimeter brachycatalectic.
But even in the earliest examples of Saturnians there is a very strong tendency to form a break by making the third trochaic beat close a word, e.
Did the Romans require a more forcible style when the long iambic or the trochaic was employed?
He now and then employed the trochaic or iambic metres.
It was considered as a compound of the iambic and trochaic systems.
The rhythm seems to have been much more often trochaic [1] than iambic, at least than trimeter iambic, for the tetrameter is more frequently employed.
The Trochaic tetrameter and the Cretic are also favourite rhythms; the former is well suited to the Latin language, its beat being much more easily distinguishable in a rapid dialogue than that of the Iambic.
On the death of Drusus he delivered an oration in the assembly, the concluding words of which are preserved by Cicero, as an instance of the effectiveness of the trochaic rhythm.
In these there is no break, but an even continuous flow oftrochaic rhythm.
The meter is a kind of trochaic tetrameter, with a pause after the eighth syllable, and a rhyme or assonance at the end of the lines.
So that it was written in what the grammarians call trochaic tetrameter catalectic.
Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used.
Epicharmus (in trochaic tetrameters), dealing with Pythagoreanism in the department of physics.
His satires related to various subjects, and were written in different sorts of verses--hexameters being mingled with iambic and trochaic lines, as fancy dictated.
Nor did Lucilius, like his predecessors, mix iambic with trochaic verses.
The majority of trochaic lines leads us to decide that the verse is trochaic.
From this example one learns to appreciate how nearly alike aretrochaic and iambic verses.
This may occur when the accent is on the first syllable of a foot; that is, when the foot is trochaic or dactylic.
In the same way, one decides that "The Song of Hiawatha" is written in trochaic tetrameter.
The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic.
The first, introchaic ballad metre, telling the story, is one of the poet's weakest things.
Their Unus homo mille mille mille decollavimus which Professor Courthope scans as trochaic verse, [Footnote: History of English Poetry, vol.
Moreover, there are in the language so many dissyllabic words of trochaic movement that the resulting frequent coincidence of word and foot tends to produce monotony.
All of the twenty-five long lines end with an iamb, but only eleven begin with rising rhythm (thirteen begin with falling ortrochaic rhythm, and one is ambiguous).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trochaic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
