Word: trochaic
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...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...
...prospect of city streets in the gray light of morning. In this it recalls some of Mr. Henley's London poems. But its effectiveness is weakened by a curious uncertainty in the handling of the verse. The metre is prevailingly iambic, but the license of substitution of trochaic and other measures is indulged in so freely that it is sometimes hard to catch the rhythm. At times, too, the rime has overmastered the thought, as in the sixth stanza, where "the first chill of night" certainly rimes with bright, but is a poor phrase for the cool of the morning
...entirely distinct from anything which we call by that name in English. English syllables have essentially no length, though we do have a slight tendency to lengthen the accented syllables. This is the forest primeval, etc., is not dactylic in any real sense, nor is Twinkle, twinkle, little star trochaic. In fact, we could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled are Tribrachs. Feet in which one syllable is short and another long are unknown in English...
...delivery of the story, but to tell it in such a way that an intelligent comprehension of its true greatness might be gained by the audience. Mr. Lawton's rhythmic translation was most pleasing to the ear, and his attempts to render the odes into English verse of the Trochaic metre was signally successful. The college is indebted to Mr. Lawton for his lectures, and to the Classical Club for the energy which they have displayed thus early in the term...
...author tells us, "suggested by Mrs. Browning's 'A Portrait,'" which is written in stanzas of three verses each, each line consisting of our trochees. As the stanzas in "A Counterfeit Presentment" are arranged in the same manner, and as those verses which we succeeded in scanning are also trochaic dimeters, we supposed, naturally enough, that the author had aimed at this throughout his poem; but here is the Courant talking of "this style of verse," as if it were something quite out of the common run, while the metre of the "Portrait" is most simple and familiar. We must...