Word: trochaic
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Dates: during 1878-1878
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...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...