Trochee
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A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short,as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the secondunaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
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A type of meter measurement used in poetry. A pair of syllables, the first stressed and the second unstressed. Much German poetry is written in trochees. The trochee's opposite is the [iamb].
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