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Counterpart of an iamb
Answer for the clue "Counterpart of an iamb ", 7 letters:
trochee
Alternative clues for the word trochee
- For a poet, foot of tree with heart that’s old, cold and hard (the core rotten)
- Foot mythical bird put in the shoe, finally
- Certain metrical foot
- A foot preserved in vitro - cheek!
- Two-syllable foot
- Box, perhaps containing old chief's foot
- A metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables
Word definitions for trochee in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables
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 ...
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.