In verse, a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.
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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 second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
Poetry Roget’s Thesaurus §597
N. poetry, poetics, poesy, muse, calliope, tuneful nine, parnassus, helicon, pierides, pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, *monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c, hexameter, pentameter, alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum
Adj. poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, melibean, skaldic, ionic, sapphic, alcaic, pindaric
Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star", dichtung und wahrheit, furor poeticus, "his virtues formed the magic of his song", "i do but sing because i must", "i learnt life from the poets", licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, "o for a muse of fire!", "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge", "the true poem is the poet's mind", volk der dichter und denker, "wisdom married to immortal verse"
No Bible verses found for "trochee".
