adjective
- relating to or consisting of trochees (a metrical foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable)
Usage: poetry; prosody
Examples
- The poem was written in trochaic meter.
- Shakespeare occasionally used trochaic verse for dramatic effect.
- The trochaic rhythm creates a falling, emphatic pattern.
- Trochaic tetrameter consists of four trochees per line.
- The nursery rhyme follows a simple trochaic pattern.
- Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ uses trochaic octameter.