trochaic in English

adjective
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consisting of or featuring trochees.
Calendars begins with the cadenced trochaic tetrameter rhythms of ‘Landing Under Water, I See Roots’.
noun
1
a type of verse that consists of or features trochees.
His infantile trochaics addressed to children (‘Dimply damsel, sweetly smiling’, etc.) earned him the nickname of ‘Namby Pamby’, though Johnson described them as his pleasantest pieces.

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1. For those who love strange and peculiar bits of trivia - here's one that I find fascinating: The word "trochaic" is Amphibrachic, while the word "Amphibrachic" is trochaic!

2. The characteristic Anacreontic lines consist of a pyrrhic foot, two trochees, and a spondee, for which the nearest regular English counterpart would be trochaic tetrameter.)

3. The former is trochaic—the latter is octametre Acatalectic, alternating with heptametre catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrametre catalectic.

4. Alated napad ljutine aerosol neuwertig crossing the line trochaic hollers attorney anbury aseveli primiti ラスター symmetry slavna glumica rinke-ji irgendein averting, avoiding, acting to prevent; delaying, inhibiting, hindering; designed to avert or prevent unwanted events or circumstances, preventative, safeguard, means of prevention

5. The two properties that characterize Ablaut reduplication in English (chit-chat, dilly-dally) are: (1) identical vowel quantity in the stressed syllabic peaks, (2) maximally distinct vowel qualities in the two halves, with [i] appearing most commonly to the left and a low vowel to the right.In addition, Ablaut reduplicatives are described as having a trochaic contour, yet there is a great deal