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Trochee   Listen
Trochee

noun
1.
A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables.





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... The metre is the trochaic tetrameter, which is always well suited to the Latin language, and which here appears treated with Greek strictness, except that in lines 55, 62, 91, a spondee is used in the fifth foot instead of a trochee. The refrain— ...
— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell


Words linked to "Trochee" :   metrical unit, foot, metrical foot, trochaic


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