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trochee Prosody a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short (– ⌣) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She was responding to poetry--to trochees and dactyls, bouncing "tumber, clamber, tumble, bramble"; to "beech-and-bramble," initial and embedded bs exploding softly in her ear; to lengthening musical phrases punctuated by two monosyllables, the spondee ("I shout") that culminates Arthur's joy in a final, declarative, grammatical unit, an emphatic restatement of his last two words. The poet sits in it, transfixed; counts iambs, trochees. Yancey also appropriates Longfellow's heavy trochees in her poems like "Winter," "Service," "Miscreant," "Recompense," and "You Must Give Before You Get. |
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