TROCHEE

(Trochaic Meter)
 TROCHAIC METER

 It is a line of poetry composed of trochees.

 The trochee is a basic metrical unit called a foot consisting
of two syllables.
 Trochee begins with a stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed or weak syllable.(/,) – symbol used in
determining the stressed and unstressed syllables in a
phrase.
TROCHAIC SUBSTITUTION
 EXAMPLES
 The epic poem “The Song of Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth is one of the few pieces
of English poetry that uses the trochee as its primary metrical foot.
 Trochaic tetrameter – 4 feet per line

“SHOULD you ASK me, WHENCE these STORies?

WHENCE these Legends AND traDItions,
WITH the Odors OF the FORest,
WITH the DEW and DAMP of MEAdows,
WITH the CURLing SMOKE of WIGwams,
WITH the RUSHing OF great RIVers,
WITH their FREquent REpiTItions,
AND their WILD reVERberAtions,
AS of THUNder IN the MOUNtains?”
 EXAMPLES
 William Shakespeare
“DOUble, DOUble, TOIL and TROUble;
FIre BURN and CAULDron BUBBle.”

 Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”

“AH, disTINCTly I reMEMber
IT was IN the BLEAK DeCEMber;
AND each SEParate DYing EMber
WROUGHT its GHOST upON the FLOOR.”
 TWINKLE TWINKLE
 Children’s Nursery Rhymes
“Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
like a diamond in the sky.”