Prosody Terminology

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noun a type of verse in which each foot consists of a trochee

  • The trochee is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
  • I learned about trochees in my poetry class, they're pretty interesting.
  • Trochees are like the cool kids of the poetry world, they stand out.
  • In the rhythm of life, sometimes we need to switch from an iamb to a trochee to keep things interesting.