trochaic
adjective
literaturespecializeduk/trəʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/us/troʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/inpoetry, having arhythmwith onelongorstrongsyllableand oneshortorweaksyllable:
（诗歌）扬抑格的，长短格的Thepoemis in a trochaicmetre,imitatedby Longfellow in Hiawatha.这首诗采用了扬抑格，类似朗费罗的长诗《海华沙之歌》的格律。
Compare
dactylic
iambic
spondaic
- Bothpoemsare made up ofregularquatrainsofrhymingcouplets, onebasedoniambicand one on trochaicmetre.
- Thesenseoflisteningto and "feeling" themotionof thelocomotiveiscreatedby therhythm(the trochaicregularityof "clanking,stumbling, down from Selston").
- Theyproposedthatchildrenat the earlystagesoflanguageattempttoproduceminimalwords, oneformof which is a trochaicfoot.
- Hedescribesthepreferencethat some English-speakingchildrendemonstratefor trochaic (strong-weak)patterns.
Literature
- action hero
- alliterative
- alternative history
- anapest
- anti-literary
- femslash
- fictionality
- fictive
- free verse
- genre fiction
- ode
- passion play
- pentameter
- poem
- poesy
- tartan noir
- theatrics
- topos
- tragedy
- tragicomic