Word: trochaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mercifully forgotten," need not be pushed further into oblivion by misspelling its title. This, no doubt, is a mere slip in proof-reading. So, of course, but none the less diverting for that, is Mr. Gorman's new promulgation of the classic "howler" that the metre of Hiawatha is "trochaic diameter...
They come with and without "Brummy", "snig", and "sportserapana" form perhaps their prize triumvirate. In the order named, these three compose a trochaic line of no dull rythm, and, corralled into a sentence, they provide salutary exercise for those who have given up Sanskrit. For example: "It's a snig" means, not "Throw that alarm clock out of the window", but, "It is an unseen object of my desire". Those addicted to abstraction have thus a new vehicle of expression...
...final poem "Love and the Garlands" he uses, with workmanship nearly perfect, the trochaic pentameter of Browning's "One Word More" in a sestina. Indeed his feeling for rhythm is so keen and so subtile that some of his verses will not read themselves to an ear less delicately trained than his own; and his work is in a way analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those...