trochaic

IPA: trˈɑtʃˈeɪɪk

Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

Examples of "trochaic" in Sentences

So it is neither trochaic or iambic.
Put simply, we speak in trochaic verse.
Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.
Now let's have one in Trochaic octameter.
It refers to a line of four trochaic feet.
Trochaic octameter is a rarely used meter.
They spoke trochaic, giving them an eery sound.
The final four syllables form a trochaic cadence.
I would call this a trochaic tetrameter catalectic.
It is what has been heretofore called trochaic verse.
It lyrically speaks prose in a form of trochaic heptameter.
If "trochaic" measures do not always trip it on a light fantastic toe, neither do
I liked my name, the alliteration of it, the solidity of its four trochaic syllables.
But I hear it as a shifting dactylic/trochaic meter that periodically emerges as a series ofiambs.
The metre is the eight-syllable trochaic, which is the commonest metre used by the Esthonians and Finns.
Pretty straightforward iambic pentameter, except for the strong trochaic substitution in the first line and the two trochees that open line10.
Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.
I would never think trochaic tetrameters would be so fresh, but the main quality of the Kalevala is how simple it seems, how fresh and uncomplicated, how like the dawn of the world.