| 单词 | trochaic |
| 例句 | The regular trochaic tetrameter of these 14 lines gives the figure of Lizzie an emblematic solidity. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z With its strong, often trochaic, rhythm, the poem invites us to hear the footsteps of marching troops. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z The literary result, “Mud Soup” — a cautionary tale that still pulsates with trochaic abandon — is quoted here at some length in belated contrition: Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Many other lines in this poem are also iambic or trochaic, yet the subject matter is troubled. Poem: Love Letter to a Dead Body 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It made “Saturday Night Live” and the David Letterman show; a literary scholar praised its “trochaic rhythm” in the National Review. Tabloid editor behind legendary headline ‘Headless Body in Topless Bar’ dies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But what endured in public memory far longer than the crime was the headline, with its verbless audacity, arresting parallel adjectives and forceful trochaic slams. Vincent Musetto, 74, Author of ‘Headless’ Headline of Ageless Fame 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z In his management of the more natural trochaic metre, he has shown much greater ease and simplicity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z On the other hand, cretic and trochaic metres, from their affinity to the old Saturnian, came most easily to the early dramatists, and are largely employed by Plautus to express lively emotion. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z As an example of trochaic lines, there are several in Dryden’s “Alexander’s Feast”: ‘“Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drunken joys did first ordain,” etc.’ The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z In both, the trochaic foot and the very short line indicate abrupt outpouring of feeling. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Ottonari are lines of eight syllables with a loose trochaic rhythm, in which great licenses of extra syllables are allowed. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z His satires related to various subjects, and were written in different sorts of verses—hexameters being mingled with iambic and trochaic lines, as fancy dictated. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z They were sung to a musical accompaniment, and were composed chiefly in bacchiac, anapaestic, or cretic metres, rapidly interchanging with trochaic lines. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Going back, as we have seen, to the seventeenth century for his inspiration in style, Moore began by using only the trochaic and iambic measures. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z The trochaic delicately expresses the emotional feeling, admiration, and tenderness for the forgotten hero, as well as the anxiety and realization of danger in the first parts of the poem. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Archilochus made use of the iambus and the trochee, and organized them into the two forms of metre known as the iambic trimeter and the trochaic tetrameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The principal difference between them is, that for the most part the Spanish romance is in trochaic, the British ballad in iambic metre. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The satires of Ennius were written in various metres, iambic, trochaic, and hexameter, and treated of various topics of personal and public interest. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z They are all in rhyming Latin, and chiefly, though with exceptions, in the loose trochaic metre called Leonine. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The change to the iambic in the central part of the poem only proves the real character of the trochaic feet, and, in fact, accentuates their spirit. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The trochaic metre he generally used for subjects of a serious nature; the iambic for satires. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" His lyric works fall into two main classes, those written in Italian metres and those in the traditional trochaic lines and strophic forms of the Spanish peninsula. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII He wrote also a philosophical poem in trochaic septenarian verse, called Epicharmus, founded on writings attributed to the old Sicilian poet, which appear to have resolved the gods of the Greek mythology into natural substances25. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z All the nations of Europe seem to love the trochaic verse; it was frequent on the Greek and Roman stage; it is more common than any other in the popular poetry of modern languages. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The last line, however, full of tenderness and sadness, is trochaic. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z To an English eye and ear which have been trained to classical prosody the trochaic rhythm of, for instance, the Pastourelle quoted on p. A Short History of French Literature The trochaic measures in The Spanish Gypsy are in imitation of the similar forms in Spanish poetry. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Again, in imitating the iambic and trochaic metres of the Greek drama, the Roman poets were quite indifferent to the laws by which their finer harmony is produced. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In St. Austin's poem he united to a trochaic measure the novel attraction of rhyme. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 I have known readers, speakers, and actors who have completely lost the dactylic and even the trochaic spirit or mode of expression. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z These seven-syllable lines have a trochaic effect, but are to be scanned as iambic, the standard rhythm of the poem. Minor Poems by Milton Thus while the first specimen is technically eight-stress trochaic, there are in the normal reading of it only four full accents to the line. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He was the author also of what seem to have been works on grammar and literary criticism and history, written in trochaic and other metres, and known by the names Didascalica and Pragmatica, and Parerga. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It might of course be easy to pick out anticipations in part of this combination of iambic dimeter, trochaic, and anapæstic; but it never had taken thorough form before. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Is the curtain blue Or green to a healthy eye?” he gives a slightly trochaic effect as a recognition of his own sick condition. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Other investigators had shown that Cicero’s clausulae are generally variations of some three or four forms in which the rhythm is trochaic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The characteristic irregularity in this stanza is the variation from trochaic to iambic rhythm. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He shall rise again in song, And his wide renown shall stalk In this blunt trochaic verse O'er the round and living Earth. Atta Troll But begin “Mother Athens, eye of Greece,” or merely “Mother Athens,” and the game is up, for the trochaic beat has been suggested. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Thus Pope’s Iliad is written in iambic pentameter, in lines made up of five iambics; and Longfellow’s Hiawatha is trochaic tetrameter, each line containing four trochees. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers This is followed by a cadence trochaic in character, but varying in length. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" There is some freedom, however, as to the number of light syllables, and some variation between the iambic and trochaic rhythm. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History This may occur when the accent is on the first syllable of a foot; that is, when the foot is trochaic or dactylic. English: Composition and Literature The flow of the versification in this speech seems to demand the trochaic ending - u; while the text blends jingle and hisses to the annoyance of less sensitive ears than Fletcher's—not to say, Shakespeare's. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Hiawatha and Evangeline are not rhymed, the former being trochaic tetrameter and the latter largely dactylic hexameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The following line, "As unto the bow the cord is," is trochaic tetrameter, which is the meter of "Hiawatha." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism One cannot avoid querying whether this interesting combination of words conveys any simpler and better idea to the normal English reader than the familiar statement that "a trochaic foot may begin an iambic verse." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The majority of trochaic lines leads us to decide that the verse is trochaic. English: Composition and Literature The Bacchic and Corybantic dances one can also modulate and quell, by changing the metre from the trochaic and the measure from the Phrygian. Plutarch's Morals This poem, then, is in trochaic trimeter, with added accented syllables at the ends of the lines. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 He explains in a footnote that the metre is "a mixed trochaic, except the chorus." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 The great charm of the metre of Wither, which Charles Lamb admired and imitated, lies in its facile combination of what, for the sake of brevity, may be called the iambic and trochaic movements. Milton If the last foot is not full, the line is trochaic. English: Composition and Literature Sometimes, in the same way as with the first, a syllable is dropped at the opening, and the half-line becomes similarly trochaic. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) If the first two syllables be regarded as anacrusis, the first line would be trochaic, with a dactyl substituted for a trochee in the second foot. The Principles of English Versification I have accented this word not quite correctly Nĭshādhă, in order to harmonise with the trochaic flow of my metre. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems The long, rolling, trochaic verse, like the billows on the coast that it pictures, suits the thought. Modern English Books of Power In the same way, one decides that “The Song of Hiawatha” is written in trochaic tetrameter. English: Composition and Literature His swinging verses still have the older tendency to a trochaic rather than the later to an anapæstic rhythm; but they are, so to speak, on the move, and approaching the later form. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) There occur examples of 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-stress iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic lines, sometimes used continuously and sometimes used in combinations with other lengths. The Principles of English Versification Their first group singing of a Sunday consisted of Negro spirituals in spondaic and trochaic verse, and phrased in many minors. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The melody exactly suited to the gentle trochaic step of the home-song, “People of the living God,” is “Whitman,” composed for it by Lowell Mason. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes At the beginning of a poem an unaccented syllable seems weak; and so very frequently the first foot of a poem is trochaic; often the first two or three feet are of this kind. English: Composition and Literature Four lines, twelve syllables trochaic, caesura at seventh syllable. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints One of the most successful metrically of purely trochaic poems is Browning's One Word More, a few lines of which are quoted on page 70. The Principles of English Versification And there is much that is lovely in this idea of nature—for do not the seasons dance, and is it not in that ancient measure we have already spoken of, the trochaic? Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University There could be such a thing as a trochaic hymn!—and majestic, too! The Story of the Hymns and Tunes In this stanza the prevailing foot is iambic, but the first foot is trochaic. English: Composition and Literature The first, in trochaic ballad metre, telling the story, is one of the poet’s weakest things. Matthew Arnold This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it. The Principles of English Versification A simple stress on alternate elements was next introduced in the series, forming a simple trochaic measure repeated without interruption. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. You might tell us, incidentally, what a trochaic foot is?—Yes.—And who wrote that 'Forest primeval' you just scanned?—Certainly—That will do, I think. A Man and a Woman If the unaccented syllable is supplied at the beginning the poem is iambic; if at the end, it is trochaic. English: Composition and Literature It is composed in triplets of rhyming trochaic tetrameters, and describes the Last Judgment in language of magnificent grandeur, passing into a plaintive plea for the souls of the dead. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Moreover, there are in the language so many dissyllabic words of trochaic movement that the resulting frequent coincidence of word and foot tends to produce monotony. The Principles of English Versification The following table presents these relations in a quantitative form for trochaic rhythm. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. They are ruder in form; and alternately rhymed, or distinguished from prose only by a certain irregular but prosodic measure, sometimes trochaic, but mostly dactylic. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations From this example one learns to appreciate how nearly alike are trochaic and iambic verses. English: Composition and Literature Not only must the verse be trochaic, it must also be alliterative, and it must also be, to some extent, rhymed verse—a matter which Longfellow did not take into consideration. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn To the Small Celandine. is unmistakably trochaic; but in Tennyson's This pretty, puny, weakly little one. The Principles of English Versification This latter tendency appears most pronounced at the fastest rate of reaction, and perhaps indicates a tendency at rapid tempos to prefer trochaic forms of rhythm. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. As regards the poem itself, it is written in trochaic eight-syllabled lines with alliteration and the part-line echo, the metre which Longfellow adopted for Hiawatha. Reviews Verse made of this kind of feet is called trochaic. English: Composition and Literature There is much more to be thought about than the placing of four trochaic feet to a line. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Furthermore, in a passage like the following, which everyone recognizes as exquisitely musical, it is not obvious whether the rhythm is iambic or anapestic or trochaic. The Principles of English Versification In this trochaic rhythm the phases of variation in the constituent intervals of the measure are concomitant, and their indices of differentiation almost identical with each other. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Like The Ancestress, A Dream is Life is written in short trochaic verses of irregular length and with occasional rhyme. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Find three poems written in iambic verse, and three written in trochaic verse. Composition-Rhetoric We may now sum it up thus—trochaic verse of eight syllables, with alliteration and rhyme, a caesura in the same part of every line, and every line reiterated in parallelism. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn The Greek trochaic tetrameter, similarly, contains eight trochees, the English 'trochaic tetrameter' but four. The Principles of English Versification The proportional values of the variations in alternate measures for accented and unaccented elements are given in the following table, in which the figures for the trochaic and iambic forms are combined: Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The master's orders are given in a lively trochaic measure, while the homilies move at a slower gait in iambic lines of varying length. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller When the feet are accented on the first syllable—as in trochaic or dactylic verse—a syllable may be omitted from the end of a line as in the second and fourth below. Composition-Rhetoric With the revival of the trochaic movement the long divorce between metrical stress and spoken accent begins to break down. Latin Literature It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc. The Principles of English Versification When trochaic rhythms were beaten out with a distinct pause after each measure, the relative values of the two intervals were 1.000:2.046. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The flow of the versification in this speech seems to demand the trochaic ending—/u/; while the text blends jingle and hisses to the annoyance of less sensitive ears than Fletcher's—not to say, Shakspeare's. Literary Remains, Volume 2 The trochaic termination of German words renders blank verse in that language almost impracticable. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge If "trochaic" measures do not always trip it on a light fantastic toe, neither do "iambic" measures always pace sedately. A Study of Poetry Is Shelley's To Night prevailingly iambic or trochaic? The Principles of English Versification The amphibrachic form, , is more difficult to maintain than either the dactylic or the trochaic, and in a continuous series tends to pass over into one of these, usually the former. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Its metre is the "eight syllabled trochaic with the part-line echo," alliteration also being used, a metre familiar to us through Longfellow's "Hiawatha." National Epics Did the Romans require a more forcible style when the long iambic or the trochaic was employed? or is it the weakness of his metrical treatment that Quintilian complains of? The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The use of the traditional terminology "iambic," "trochaic," etc., is convenient, and is open to no objection if one is careful to make clear the sense in which he employs such ambiguous terms. A Study of Poetry Two of the short lines are definitely iambic, the other eight are doubtful, but apparently trochaic. The Principles of English Versification This proximity it of course shares with the second reaction of the group, but the underlying trochaic tendency depreciates the value of the second reaction while it exaggerates that of the third. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In his use of caesuras Vergil in the Ciris resembles Catullus: both to a certain extent distrust the trochaic pause. Vergil A Biography He now and then employed the trochaic or iambic metres. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius "Iambic" with initial truncation or "trochaic" with final truncation? A Study of Poetry If it is read as iambic, eleven of the hundred feet in the long lines will be 'irregular'; if it is read as trochaic, eleven likewise will be 'irregular.' The Principles of English Versification Two rhythm forms were analyzed, the trochaic and the dactylic, the series of sounds being given by hammer-falls of 7/8 and 1/8 inch for accented and unaccented elements respectively. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It is written in the eight-footed trochaic metre, similar to that in which the Spanish tragedies are written. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The question of calling a given group of lines "iambic" or "trochaic," for instance, can be made quite arbitrary, depending upon where you begin to count syllables. A Study of Poetry The trochaic line is generally stiff and thumping. The Principles of English Versification Six observers took part in the work with trochaic forms, five in that with dactylic. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The iambic and trochaic, on the other hand, are metres of movement, the one representing that of life and action, the other that of the dance. Aristotle on the art of poetry In these there is no break, but an even continuous flow of trochaic rhythm. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius So is it with this "iambic" and "trochaic" matter. A Study of Poetry But these verses will not submit to iambic or trochaic scansion, and their form is as strange as a democratic government was a century and a half ago to the monarchies of Europe. History of American Literature The measure employed was the trochaic, the interval suffering change was that following the accented beat—in this case, therefore, the intra-group interval. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The stresses are nearly even throughout; the meter cannot be accurately described as iambic, trochaic, or anapestic; yet there is a rhythm in the approximate temporal equality of the thought-moments. The Principles of Aesthetics But even in the earliest examples of Saturnians there is a very strong tendency to form a break by making the third trochaic beat close a word, e.g. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The metre of this song is trochaic; that is, the accents fall regularly on the odd syllables. The Lady of the Lake In Kind are her Answers the long syllables and the trochaic movement of the short lines meet the contrary movement of the rest, with an exquisite effect of flux and reflux. Flower of the Mind A number of measurements by different observers show that in the iambic foot the unaccented syllable is proportionately much shorter than the unaccented syllable in the trochaic foot. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic. The Principles of Aesthetics It was considered as a compound of the iambic and trochaic systems. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius On the other hand, the iambic and the trochaic tetrameter are stirring measures, the latter being akin to dancing, the former expressive of action. The Poetics of Aristotle I love to see English poetry move to many measures, to many numbers, but chiefly with the simple iambic and the simple trochaic foot. Hearts of Controversy Underlying all changes in accentuation there thus appears a resolution of the rhythmic structure into units of two beats, which are primitively trochaic in form. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In general, the larger temporal variations of the trochaic and iambic rhythm forms are too slight to be significant when taken individually. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The metre is trochaic, scanned, like these of Plautus and Terence, by accent as much as by quantity, and noticeable for the careless way in which whole syllables are slurred over. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Even the excessive shortening which occurs in the trochaic form, when the full measure has a duration almost one and one half times as great as the syncopated, brings about no inversion of the order. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. On the death of Drusus he delivered an oration in the assembly, the concluding words of which are preserved by Cicero, as an instance of the effectiveness of the trochaic rhythm. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius |
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