Trochaic

TROCHAIC (from Gr. rpoxaios, Tpoxcuicos; Lat. trochaeus), the name of a metre very commonly used by the Greeks and Romans in their tragedies and comedies. Its characteristic foot is a trochee consisting of two syllables, one long, one short (-«j). The usual form, in which the Greeks employed the measure, was the trochaic tetrameter catalectic, the scheme of which is as follows: — — v — o — v — \J — \J — u — w — — — u w — u w — • \J V -3 — \J w - w — uo — wu — w — «u — o u The trochaic metre is rapid in movement and…

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Vol. 27, pp. 298-298