Explore relationships

Trochee

In poetic metre, a trochee ( TROH-kee) is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in qualitative meter, as found in English, and in modern linguistics; or in quantitative meter, as found in Latin and Ancient Greek, a heavy syllable followed by a light one (also described as a long syllable followed by a short one).

Use + to expand a branch. Click a topic name to open its summary.