| 单词 | trochee |
| 例句 | A single stressed syllable, then a trochee, then a dactyl, for prosody nerds. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z "Maggie Thatcher" – two fierce trochees set against the gentler iambic pulse of Britain's postwar welfare state. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z If you have not thought much about iambs and trochees, or denotation and connotation, or synecdoche and metonymy in recent years, you are in for a day tripper’s version of literary spelunking. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z Don't worry too much about the finer points of the trochees and dactyls: focus on the antic spirit of the thing. Poster poems: Sapphics 2010-07-02T09:32:00Z Not that one needs to know an anapest from a trochee to enjoy the genre. 8 audiobooks to enjoy National Poetry Month 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “Olive onion pigeon”: Those three trochees, with the repetition of O’s and N’s and the slant rhyme of “onion” and “pigeon,” suggest that I was attuned to the music of language. My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z I heard the hokey trochee at least a dozen times as I sat at the interminable Wacker and Madison red light. I Can’t! I Can’t! Listen to a Boring Chant! writes Gregg Opelka 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z This ode is a curious medley of antique metres, trochees, dactyls, and spondees, attuned to tumultuous emotion. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z But is the trochee suited to our heroic verse? The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The trochee seems in general to indicate an outpouring of emotion or sudden burst of feeling too strong for control. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Pherecratian, consisting of three feet, a trochee, spondee, or iambus in the first place, followed by a dactyl and spondee. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z 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" To this metre Catullus imparts a peculiar lightness and grace by making the trochee, instead of the spondee as in Horace’s glyconics and pherecrateans, the first foot in the line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" My brothers thought that the tortures of the condemned groaned, the flames of hell darted through these trochees. The Scarlet Banner It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z One is not likely to recommend elementary students to count trochees and cesuras in order to increase their appreciation of good verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Standing on his head there, he galloped backwards, forwards, and sideways in all sorts of extraordinary curves and ups and downs, his feet meanwhile playing trochees, dactyls, pyrrhics, &c., in the air. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II And vanished, with a well-bred yawn-noise, a trochee, the short syllable being the apology for the long one. When Ghost Meets Ghost The limping trochees of the court poet are rarely sung; the men have grown disgusted with the verses; if any one strikes up the air half unwillingly, two others instantly drown his voice. The Scarlet Banner It would be impossible for him to talk in a steady, straight-forward iambic, or even in the hesitating, emotional trochee. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z A trochee in the first foot is indicated by the figure 1 in the "T" column; a spondee in the fourth foot by the figure 4 in the "S" column; and so on. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers In the following selection from “Evangeline,” trochees are substituted for dactyls, yet there is no break in the rhythm. English: Composition and Literature At least, I have found him perched at the tip of a tall pine, and repeating this inconsiderable and not very melodious trochee with all earnestness and perseverance. Birds in the Bush This possibly expresses hope, or impetuous longing, while the last, returning to the trochee, expresses intense despair. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The symbol for a trochee on page 134 is shown like this: —∪ The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' 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 The trochee and the dactyl are interchangeable; and the iambus and the anapest are interchangeable. English: Composition and Literature The last words, as sustaining the rhyme, must be considered, as in fact they are, trochees in time. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher The foot that consists of two syllables, the first of which is accented, is called a trochee. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism This foot is called the trochee, and it will help you to remember it if you will think that the word tro´chee has two syllables and is accented on the first. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 The first half sometimes varies from this norm, though not very often, the alteration usually taking the form of the loss of the first syllable, so that the half-line consists of three trochees. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Can trochees and iambs occur together in the same line without either obscuring or actually destroying the rhythm? The Principles of English Versification “Power,” here, instead of being one long syllable—pow'r—must be sounded, not indeed as a spondee, nor yet as a trochee; but as - u u;—the first syllable is 1-1/4. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher The line, "Softly the breezes descend in the valley," is dactylic tetrameter, though the last foot is a trochee. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism I know not how it is with you who are really a Poet; and perhaps you may think I am as wrong about my trochee as about my iambic. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II At last we are free from the tyranny of the iambic, and have variety beyond the comparative freedom of the trochee. 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 A poet, of all men, should cherish the liquid consonants, and should resist the tendency of the populace to make trochees of all dissyllables. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 The meter is iambic pentameter; but the first foot of the second line is a trochee, and emphasizes thoughts with fine effect. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism His imagination is too bold to be confined by the petty limits of trochee or iambus. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The presence of a trochee is no blemish, but a relief: Vailing her high tops higher than her ribs. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway The Greek trochaic tetrameter, similarly, contains eight trochees, the English 'trochaic tetrameter' but four. The Principles of English Versification The Doric steps consisted primarily of a trochee and a spondee, or time. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. There shall be six feet in each line, dactyls or spondees, and the fifth foot shall be a dactyl and the sixth a spondee or a trochee. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 We replied in trochees, not impugning her suspicion. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading To say that the first phrase is made up of a dactyl and two trochees means very little. The Principles of English Versification You will observe this is verse of eight syllables with four trochees to a line. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn I do not forget the work of other observers, such as Brücke, who finds that dactyls which appear among trochees are of less duration than the latter, nor do I impugn their results. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls. Shandygaff He also speaks enthusiastically of the "honey-dropping trochees" of the New Sirens, and of the "chiselled and classic perfection" of the lines of Resignation. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc. The Principles of English Versification In technical terms each line consists of three parts: the first part including two dactyls, the second part two dactyls, the third part one dactyl and one trochee. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 But on trial, such material turned out to be very complex; the forms changed gradually, iambs becoming trochees and trochees changing into spondees. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Without this, months of reading of amphibrachs and trochees and dactyls will not avail. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit It is a rough, irregular metre, in which the trochees preponderate over the dactyls: many of the lines, in fact, would not bear a critical scansion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 Beauty, by this usage, is a trochee, beautiful a dactyl, relate an iamb, intercede an anapest. The Principles of English Versification The final trochee, a long and a short syllable, rhymes with the following or preceding line. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Two types were chosen, the trochee and the dactyl. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. There are four regular feet in English verse, the iambus, the anapest, the trochee, and the dactyl. Composition-Rhetoric It will, no doubt, be considered ridiculous by the Fannii and Fanniae of our day to talk of varying the trochee with the iambus, or of resolving either into the tribrach. Famous Reviews Is the imperial iamb laid to rest, And the young trochee, having done enough? The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke The first kind consists of five feet, viz. a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable and two dactyles; the second of two dactyles and two trochees. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The prolongation of the foot pause would make the dactyl but a modified trochee. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A trochee is a foot consisting of two syllables with the accent on the first. Composition-Rhetoric Our dissyllables are for the most part, either iambics, as desire; or trochees, as languid. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey The last words as sustaining the rhyme, must be considered, as in fact they are, trochees in time. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Certainly those sun-burnt "doughboys" were not bothering themselves about trochees and iambi and such toys of cultivated "literary" persons; they were amusing themselves on the march by inventing words to fit the "goose-step." A Study of Poetry But there is nothing new in English literature for some hundreds of years in combinations of dactyls, anapests or trochees, and without rhyme. Toward the Gulf The following from Evangeline illustrates the substitution of trochees for dactyls:— U U | U | U U | U U | U U | U | Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed. Composition-Rhetoric This consists of two dactyls, and three trochees; the two dactyls first; and the trochees following. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Such exceptions relieve the monotony of our English trochees. On Something It is made up of all the poetic feet —iambics, trochees, dactyls, anapests—so that it almost defies any attempt at scansion. Poets of the South The mere humanitarian bards, who try to make modern life trip to the music of trochees, dactyles, and spondees, fail miserably. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 The trochee and the dactyl are both accented on the first syllable and may, therefore, be interchanged. Composition-Rhetoric The usual iambic flow is disturbed in both lines by the very same ripple, viz., a trochee in the second foot, placid in the one line, bosom in the other. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater I should have described him more briefly as a 'master-builder,' had my ear been able to endure a sentence ending with two consecutive trochees, and each of those trochees ending with the same syllable er. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee. The Last Chronicle of Barset The singers have been induced to make their own selections, and put forward, as Mr. Browning says, their best foot, anapæst or trochee, or whatever it may be. Letters on Literature Occasionally a poem in which the prevailing foot is iambic has a trochee for the first foot of a line in order that it may begin with an accented syllable. Composition-Rhetoric |
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