trochaic
adjective literature specialized uk/trəʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/ us/troʊˈkeɪ.ɪk/
（诗歌）扬抑格的，长短格的
in poetry, having a rhythm with one long or strong syllable and one short or weak syllable
The poem is in a trochaic metre, imitated by Longfellow in Hiawatha. 这首诗采用了扬抑格，类似朗费罗的长诗《海华沙之歌》的格律。
Compare: dactyliciambicspondaic
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- Both poems are made up of regular quatrains of rhyming couplets, one based on iambic and one on trochaic metre.
- The sense of listening to and "feeling" the motion of the locomotive is created by the rhythm (the trochaic regularity of "clanking, stumbling, down from Selston").
- They proposed that children at the early stages of language attempt to produce minimal words, one form of which is a trochaic foot.
- He describes the preference that some English-speaking children demonstrate for trochaic (strong-weak) patterns.