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	Guardian \| Trochee, spondee and a Scotch whip
		Pennine may be a trochee or a spondee depending on whether you are measuring it as a modern English word with stress on the first syllable, or as a classical Greek word with a longer vowel sound in the second syllable (Letters, June 21).
		The elongation of an English vowel sound as in, perhaps, Pennine, is comparatively insufficient and therefore, as the emphasis rests on the first syllable, the word is a trochee.
		Professor Adam Roberts' view that Pennine is a spondee is a typical example of a southerner claiming that his drawled enunciation of English represents received pronunciation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5221156-103683,00.html (319 words)

	Meter in Children's Poetry
		The most common metrical forms in English combine the number of syllables with the number of stresses in a regular pattern.
		Iamb: - / Anapest: - - / Trochee: / - Dactyl: / - - Spondee: / / Pyrrhic: - -
		Note that the boundaries between the feet (one iamb, or one trochee, is known as a "foot") are arbitrary--they have nothing to do with the syntax or the word boundaries in the line.
	www.richmond.edu /~egruner/english203/poetry.html (754 words)

	Learn more about Trochee in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A trochee is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.
		Often a few trochees will be interspersed among iambs in the same lines to develop a more complex or syncopated rhythm.
		These lines are primarily trochaic, with the last syllable dropped so that the line ends with a stressed syllable to give a strong rhyme or masculine rhyme.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/tr/trochee.html (262 words)

	T is for Trochee
		You probably learned in English class that master poets don't always stick to a strict metrical pattern; they vary the meter of their poems, in order to draw attention to a line or phrase, or just to make the poem more interesting or less sing-songy.
		There is a certain set of allowable deviations from the meter; for instance, in iambic pentameter it's considered acceptable to replace the first iamb on a line with a trochee (as above), or to leave out the first or last syllable of the line.
		are extremely deviant lines, in which every iamb has been replaced by a trochee (or a pyrrhic).
	www.kith.org /logos/words/upper/T.html (803 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		It is merely a bolder variation than usual from the routine of trochees, and introduces to the bastard trochee one additional syllable.
		That is, it is not short in the sense of "short" as applied to the final syllable of the ordinary trochee, where the word means merely the half of long.
		The "flowers ever," on the contrary, is as common in the dactylic rhythm as is the bastard trochee in the trochaic, or the bastard iambus in the iambic.
	www.eapoe.org /works/essays/ratlvrs2.htm (6659 words)

	Blank Verse
		Headless Iamb or Tailess Trochee- one stressed syllable.
		The first line, for example, scans as a trochee and four iambs.
		Of course, how a person scans a single line or an entire poem depends on the reader's natural rhythms and inclinations, and, while there may be better ways to scan a poem, there is not always a single correct scan.
	www.uni.edu /~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/blankverse.html (794 words)

	Poetry Pages - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Recollecting Longfellow
		Library of America edition of his selected poems and prose confirms as much, a silver-hued photograph taken late in his life that makes it appear as if the domed brow and furling beard were already sculpted in marble.
		The stately cadence of his name alone reverberates with gravitas: trochee, trochee, dactyl, a name that all but demands to be chiseled on the base of a bust or high on the portico of a classical-revival library.
		And so it has been, time and again, even as his once-monumental repute has gradually eroded since his death in 1882.
	www.theatlantic.com /unbound/poetry/longfel/hwlindex.htm (537 words)

	Poetry Month \| Glossary of Poetry Terms
		(The stressed syllables are in bold.) The iamb is the reverse of the trochee.
		A type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line.
		An easy way to remember the trochee is to memorize the first line of a lighthearted poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which demonstrates the use of various kinds of metrical feet: "Trochee/ trips from/ long to/ short." (The stressed syllables are in bold.) The trochee is the reverse of the iamb.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/pmglossary1.html (2402 words)

	Amazon.com: "terminal trochee": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		See all pages with references to terminal trochee.
		/ A similar tone of the sardonic attaches to Yeats's use of the terminal trochee in "Among School Children": Better to smile on all that smile,...
		Or the final short syllable of a terminal trochee may be dropped without spoiling the expected pattern, as in Longfellow's 14 Psalm of Life" : -...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/terminal-trochee (180 words)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Trochee, Trochaic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A trochee (the adjective is "trochaic") is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one:
		Because each foot consists of two syllables, the trochaic is known as a duple meter.
		Three question marks mean I have to write more on the subject.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/trochee.html (96 words)

	Quia - Trochee
		Trochee is a foot with one strong stress followed by one weak stress.
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		To learn how to make your own, just like this, click here.
	www.quia.com /pop/1895.html (34 words)

	Amazon.com: "double trochee": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		See all pages with references to double trochee.
		This stanza, too, is iambic tetrameter, but with variations-an anapest instead of an iamb, a double trochee, and so forth.
		I've occasionally asked my students to convert this poem into perfectly regular meter while inflicting as little...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/double-trochee (473 words)

	Definition of trochee - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Learn more about "trochee" and related topics at Britannica.com
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		See a map of "trochee" in the Visual Thesaurus
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=trochee&x=13&y=11 (82 words)

	Wimbledon Hotels \| Trochee Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Trochee is a private Bed and Breakfast hotel offering a warm and homely atmosphere in a delightful part of Wimbledon.
		The hotel is in two buildings - Malcolm Road and its sister hotel on the Ridgway Place, in an adjacent quiet, tree-lined street.
		Web page for Trochee Hotel Wimbledon supplied by Wimbledon Visitor - The Complete Guide to Wimbledon
	www.wimbledonvisitor.com /vouchers_bizcards/trochee_hotel.html (106 words)

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