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In an trochaic-or-iambic pair, each word can be either a trochee (stressed on the first syllable) or an iamb (stressed on the second syllable). contract, entr'acte; discount, miscount; hereby, nearby; sunlit, unlit; thereby, whereby; therein, wherein; thereof, whereof; therewith, wherewith
Trochaic tetrameter in Macbeth. In poetic metre, a trochee (/ ˈ t r oʊ k iː /) is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in qualitative meter, as found in English, and in modern linguistics; or in quantitative meter, as found in Latin and Ancient Greek, a heavy syllable followed by a light one (also described as a long syllable followed by a short ...
The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapaest. [1] The foot might be compared to a bar, or a beat divided into pulse groups, in musical notation. The English word "foot" is a translation of the Latin term pes, plural pedes, which in turn is a translation of the Ancient Greek πούς, pl. πόδες.
[1] [2] [3] In modern English poetry, a trochee is a foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Thus a tetrameter contains four trochees or eight syllables. Thus a tetrameter contains four trochees or eight syllables.
In a line of verse that normally employs iambic meter, trochaic substitution describes the replacement of an iamb by a trochee. The following line from John Keats's To Autumn is straightforward iambic pentameter: [2] To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
Cicero and Quintilian both use the term choreus to refer to the trochee (– u), and trochaeus to refer to the tribrach (u u u); but Quintilian adds that some people use trochaeus for the trochee and tribrachys for the tribrach. [4] Quintilian uses the adjective trochaicus to describe an iambic senarius with a lot of tribrachs in it. [5]
The name tribrachys is first recorded in the Roman writer Quintilian (1st century AD). According to Quintilian, an alternative name for a tribrach was a "trochee": "Three short syllables make a trochaeus, but those who give the name trochaeus to the choraeus prefer to call it a tribrachys.") [3] Quintilian himself referred to it as a trochaeus.
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