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trochee
noun
(tro-chee)
a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable followed by one short syllable or of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable (as in apple)
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trochee
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syllabic
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choriambus
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choreus
,
choliambic
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choriamb
,
choliamb
,
metrical foot
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ditrochee
,
dispondee
,
dipody
,
epitrite
,
asclepiad
,
proceleusmatic
,
antispast
,
amphimacer
,
amphibrach
,
diiambus
,
asynartete
,
acatalectic
,
hypercatalexis
,
alcaic verse
,
spondee
,
adonic
,
cretic
,
line of poetry
,
glyconian
,
catalectic
,
scazon
,
tetrameter
,
monometer
,
bacchius
,
anapest
,
octameter
,
antibacchius
,
priapean
,
hendecasyllable
,
pedalian
,
catalexis
,
iambus
,
dactylist
,
octosyllable
,
feminine rhyme
,
trimeter
,
quinquesyllable
,
iambic
,
syllable
,
tetrasyllable
,
pentasyllabic
,
tetrasyllabic
,
hexameter
,
trimetrical
,
poetic rhythm
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antepenultima
,
trisyllable
,
decasyllable
,
antepenult
,
rhyme royal
,
disyllable
,
quadrisyllable
,
masculine rhyme
,
pentameter
,
hypermeter
,
dodecasyllabic
,
monostrophe
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septisyllable
,
internal rhyme
,
heptameter
,
syllabize
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tiercet
,
spenserian sonnet
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oxytone
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syllabicity
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cynghanedd
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rhyme scheme
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semiped
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petrarchan sonnet
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hexastich
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dodecasyllable
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prosody
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synizesis
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immetrical
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italian sonnet
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sextain
,
senarius
,
syllabogram
,
perispomenon
,
prosimetrical
,
enjambment
,
monopody
,
scansion
,
paroxytone
,
eye rhyme
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couplet
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rhopalic
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proparoxytone
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paragoge
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tercet
,
dactyl
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monorhyme
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synecphonesis
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trochee
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