1
The presence of a trochee is no blemish, but a relief:
2
The prolongation of the foot pause would make the dactyl but a modified trochee.
3
The genitive in Saxon would be mannes, a trochee; in English, of man, an iambus.
4
Like the trochee the dactyl is a non-final foot.
5
Two types were chosen, the trochee and the dactyl.