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Definition of Trochaics
1. trochaic [n] - See also: trochaic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trochaics
Literary usage of Trochaics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"In like manner the few remnants of Solon's trochaics enable us to form some ...
Sulon wrote his trochaics at nearly the same time as his iambics; when, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Metres of the Greek Tragedians by Edward Burton (1821)
"The Tragedians generally end a system with a verse of some different Metre.
The Anapaest is no where admitted. CHAP. IX. trochaics. ..."
3. A Study of Archaism in Euripides by Clarence Augustus Manning (1916)
"Probably in Oedipus Rex 1515-1530, trochaics are used merely as the ending of
the play. These lines follow a scene which contains prayers and predictions, ..."
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