You might want to check out some old James Thurber cartoons that illustrate " trochee " and " spondee " as mythical animals.
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The format of this test is being given a line and identifying the type of meter ( iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee ).
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The work favoured hard-hitting trochees and spondees reminiscent of middle English a style he used throughout his career over the more genteel latinate sounds.
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The metre is largely one of anapaestic trimeter with an admix of initial iambs and trochees to break up the rather monotonous rhythm that the anapaestic line confers.
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Because of the anceps ( a short or long syllable ), the sixth foot can be filled by either a trochee ( a long then short syllable ) or a spondee.
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The trochaic tetrameter catalecticfour pairs of trochees per line, with the final syllable omittedwas identified by Aristotle as the original meter of tragic dialogue ( " Poetics " 1449a21 ).
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For example, it is proposed that modifications are applied cyclically, initially within rhythmic feet ( trochees; see below ), and that sandhi " need not apply between two cyclic branches ."
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After the first quatrain, the next trochee occurs in the middle of line 5, the only medial trochee of the sonnet, followed by trochees at the beginning of the sixth and seventh lines.
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After the first quatrain, the next trochee occurs in the middle of line 5, the only medial trochee of the sonnet, followed by trochees at the beginning of the sixth and seventh lines.
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After the first quatrain, the next trochee occurs in the middle of line 5, the only medial trochee of the sonnet, followed by trochees at the beginning of the sixth and seventh lines.
