That is, it is commonplace for English poetry to employ a trochee in the first position of an otherwise iambic line, and some poets have consciously worked with cretic lines and fully cretic measures.
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His " Voicing Shakespeare " ebook addresses the linguistic challenges of Shakespearean language while explaining such terms as iambic pentameter, alexandrine, tetrameter, enjambment, trochee, spondee, pyrrhic and epic caesura.
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Thus, for example, the magicians in " Bartholomew and the Oobleck " make their first appearance chanting in trochees ( thus resembling the witches of Shakespeare's " Macbeth " ):
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This comment about the absence of anapest and trochee has been interpreted to mean that the music was not based on the usual walking meters, since the chorus sings the stasimon while remaining in the orchestra.
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Vendler writes that the first two lines of the sonnet begin with trochees, which " draw attention to the hastening of the waves, the attacks by eclipses and by Time, and the countervailing praising by verse ".
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The words with antepenultimate stress have a rhythmic reversal to a trochee to prevent a heavy antepenultimate syllable from not being stressed, that is an illicit * ( H " " L "') ? form:
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She had typed out almost all his poems and submitted them, in this collection, to a competition for a first book of poems being run by the Poetry Centre of the iamb in favour of bludgeoning trochees and spondees.
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Sonnet 60 incorporates a large number of " trochees ", feet with a metrically strong followed by a metrically weak syllabic position ( / ?) in place of an " iamb " ( ?/ ).
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This contrasts greatly with the " smoothness of the first quatrain, describing the work of time, in which each line [ after the initial trochee ] runs to its end like the ripple to which it compares the succession of minutes ".
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The iamb and anapest are known as " rising meters " ( they move " up " from weak to strong syllables ); the trochee and dactyl are " falling meters " ( they move " down " from strong to weak ).
