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.
6
The final trochee, a long and a short syllable, rhymes with the following or preceding line.
7
A trochee, or tribrach, will do very well.
8
The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.
9
Five points for the initial trochee.
10
He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.
11
Or you could use a single beat as Tennyson does above (a docked trochee, if you like):
12
Well, the last word in the first line is a trochee, and it rhymes with the end of the next line.
13
We don't mind starting a phrase with a trochee, but it sounds all wrong inserted into a full flow of iambs.
14
That's better: the colon gives a natural caesura with which to split the line allowing us to start the new thought with a trochee.
15
The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle.
16
The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee.