Top 10 similar words or synonyms for trochaic

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Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for trochaic

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Trochaic septenarius The trochaic septenarius is a catalectic line; that is, it consists of eight trochaic feet, with the last a half-foot. Only the seventh foot is regularly trochaic. The other feet can be varied with a spondee, dactyl, tribrach, or more rarely an anapaest. There is usually a diaeresis after the fourth foot. It is sometimes called catalectic trochaic tetrameter.
Trochaic septenarius Crās ǎ|mēt quī| nūnqu(am) ǎ|māvīt,| quīqu(e) ǎ|māvīt| crās ǎ|mēt.
"Let him love tomorrow who has never loved, and let him who has loved love tomorrow."
Trochaic tetrameter Good examples of the rhythmic scheme, albeit not in English, are found in two famous thirteenth century medieval Latin hymns. "Dies Irae" (used as the sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass), the first two verses of which are...
Trochaic tetrameter Traditional poetry in the Kalevala meter uses both types with approximately the same frequency. The alteration of normal and broken tetrameters is a characteristic difference between the Kalevala meter and other forms of trochaic tetrameter.
Trochaic octameter Because of the length of the line, trochaic octameter lends itself to the heavy use of internal rhyme and alliteration and is also extraordinarily difficult to use consistently. The Raven, for example, breaks into two half-lines of approximately 8 syllables, generally with a caesura between them.