trochaic
/troʊˈkeɪɪk/
adjective
- Relating to or consisting of a metrical foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable (as in the word 'happy').
- Trochaic rhythm is common in nursery rhymes like 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'.
- The poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe uses a trochaic meter.
- The student analyzed the trochaic pattern in the first stanza of the poem.
noun
- A line of verse written in trochaic meter.
- Many limericks are not trochaics; they use anapestic meter instead.
- The poet wrote a series of trochaics for the children's book.
- The teacher asked the class to compose a short trochaic.