trochee

The whole foot (many are the) might be called a quick trochee.

Even so, the dominant foot throughout the poem is the trochee.

Many of his picture stories use verses with trochee structure:

The reverse of an iamb is called a trochee.

The three together are equal only to the one short syllable (whose place they supply) of the ordinary trochee.

In this version, the first half of the tune has been interpreted as trochee:

The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee.

The defect is rendered the more perceptible by the introduction of a Trochee in the first foot.

What delights her ears is surprising: a trochee.

The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest.

Each half-line had exactly six syllables, and each line ended in a trochee.

No one commands the trochee and dactyl better than the cabdriver and his trusty horn.

The form was subject to further restrictions: each line must have exactly six syllables, and each line must always end in a trochee.

I take these Barnum & Bailey promises - You will hear the harshest trochee!

A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.

Pause for a moment over the masterful use of sound in the phrase 'took it,' probably the harshest trochee in American poetry."

Trochee is a rhythm natural to the Finnish language to the same extent that iamb is natural to English.

The / murmuring / pines and the / hem locks, The first five feet of the line are dactyls; the sixth a trochee.

Trochee: 1 long + 1 short (mēnsă)

To this day, each half-foot can also begin with a trochee; this is called choriambic, by comparison to its ancient metrical counterpart.

In a line of verse that normally employs iambic meter, trochaic substitution describes the replacement of an iamb by a trochee.

Long-short (trochee)

Now trochee is tricky And spondee is sticky And onopest's a mess!