| 1. | I found some sources saying iambic pentameter and others saying trochee.
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| 2. | The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee.
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| 3. | Even so, the dominant foot throughout the poem is the trochee.
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| 4. | Each half-line had exactly six syllables, and each line ended in a trochee.
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| 5. | It is a remembrance of the Russian Joseph Brodsky in the same jangly trochees used by Auden to eulogize Yeats.
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| 6. | There are some exceptions to these stress rules, including diminutives, which have word-initial trochee ( = initial stress ).
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| 7. | A hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying structure : two trochees, followed by a dactyl, then two more trochees.
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| 8. | A hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying structure : two trochees, followed by a dactyl, then two more trochees.
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| 9. | In the Sapphic stanza, three hendecasyllabics are followed by an " Adonic " line, made up of a dactyl and a trochee.
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| 10. | According to Robert Arbour, after these initial trochees, Shakespeare ends each of these first two lines with a " calm, iambic meter ".
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