单词 | trochee |
释义 | trocheen. Prosody. a. A metrical foot consisting of a long followed by a short syllable; in accentual verse, of an accented followed by an unaccented syllable. Also called choree n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot > trochee choree1586 trochee1589 trochaic1693 long short1875 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xiii. 92 For your Trocheus of a long and short ye haue these wordes mānĕr, brōkĕn, tākĕn, bōdiĕ, mēmbĕr, and a great many moe. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1259 A Trochæus was put in stead of a Pæon. 1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike (new ed.) sig. H If wee shoulde say the state of China, which neuer heard of Anapestiques, Trochies, and Tribracques, were grosse, barbarous, and vnciuile. a1771 T. Gray Observ. Eng. Metre in Wks. (1814) II. 15 The measure..is Dimeter-Iambick, but admits of a Trochee, Spondee, Amphybrachys, Anapæst, &c. in almost every place. 1803 S. T. Coleridge Metrical Feet i Trochee trips from long to short. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot > three short syllables trochee1586 tribrach1589 triseme1885 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.iiii A foote of 3. sillables..is either simple or myxt. The simple is eyther Molossus, that is of three long,..or Trochæus, that is of 3. short. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1586 |
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