Entertainment / Literature / Trochee: A two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress. Many words in English naturally form trochees, including happy, hammer, Pittsburgh, nugget, double, incest, injure, roses, hippie, Bubba, 'beat it,' clever, dental, dinner, shatter, pitcher, Cleveland, chosen, planet, chorus, widow, bladder, cuddle, slacker, and so on. A line of poetry written in successive trochees is said to be written in trochaic meter. See extended discussion under meter.
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Falling Metre: Trochees and dactyls, i.e., a stressed syllable followed by one or two unstressed syllables. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Hendecasyllabic: A classical greek and latin metrical line consisting of eleven syllables, a spondee or trochee, a choriamb, and two iambs, the second of which has an additional syllable at the end / ' ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ~ MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Pherecratean: A classical greek and latin metrical pattern consisting of an iamb or a trochee, a dactyl, and a trochee or a spondee. MORE