Trochaics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 557 anagrams from letters in trochaics (acchiorst).
1580-90; Latin trochaicus Greek trochaïkós, equivalent to trocha(îos) trochee + -ikos -ic
Shelley's To a Skylark is in trochaic metre of 3-stress and 6-stress lines.
The Greek trochaic tetrameter, similarly, contains eight trochees, the English 'trochaic tetrameter' but four.
How, then, let us ask the challenger, is the application of the trochaic system justified?
trochaic metre is often read, as if it were a kind of crude iambic.
It does not admit of frequent substitutions, for many substitutions destroy the trochaic effect.
The fifth trochaic species is likewise uncommon; and, as a Bowbellian would say, uncommon ugly.
The originals (and Miss Rootham's versions) are all in trochaic decasyllabics.
The last line, however, full of tenderness and sadness, is trochaic.
The trochaic metre he generally used for subjects of a serious nature; the iambic for satires.
In St. Austin's poem he united to a trochaic measure the novel attraction of rhyme.
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