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One of four in "Double, double toil and trouble"
Answer for the clue "One of four in "Double, double toil and trouble" ", 7 letters:
trochee
Alternative clues for the word trochee
- A foot preserved in vitro - cheek!
- Foot mythical bird put in the shoe, finally
- A metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables
- Iamb's counterpart
- Counterpart of an iamb
- For a poet, foot of tree with heart that’s old, cold and hard (the core rotten)
- Box, perhaps containing old chief's foot
Word definitions for trochee in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In poetic meter , a trochee , choree , or choreus , is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in English, or a heavy syllable followed by a light one in Latin or Greek. In this respect, a trochee is the reverse ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trochee \Tro"chee\, n. [L. trochaeus, Gr. ? (sc.?), from ? running, from ? to run. Cf. Troche , Truck a wheel.] (Pros.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, ...
Usage examples of trochee.
It made no use of the traditional stress-patterned metrics he knew so well, the iambs and trochees and dactyls, the spondees and anapests, out of which Furvain had always built his poems with such swiftness and ease.
It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot--Around : me gleamed : many a : bright se : pulchre.
Homage was paid to it in iambi and trochees, in trisyllabic feet, Buchnerian dactyls, and alexandrines, with metathesis, alliteration, internal rhymes, and nimble improvisations.