Trochees

We were told, of course, that it was not all quite as simple as this: that there were frequent metrical variations, such as trochees changing places with dactyls, and anapests with iambi; that feet could be inverted, so that a trochaic line might begin with an iambus, an anapestic line with a dactyl, or _vice versa_; that syllables might be omitted at the beginning or the end or even in the middle of a line, and that this "cutting-off" was called _catalexis_; that syllables might even be added at the beginning or end of certain lines and that these syllables were called ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

'trochees' ... and no less a person than Mr. Tennyson, who said to somebody who repeated it, that in the want of harmony lay the chief defect of the poems, 'although it might verily be retrieved, as he could fancy that I had an ear by nature.' ❋ Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (1898)

Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is nothing in the sphere of the sublime, that is so lowering as broken and agitated movement of language, such as is characteristic of pyrrhics and trochees and dichorees, which fall altogether to the level of dance-music. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

And the initial anapestic foot of the second line seems to slide down after the discovery in the first line that not trochees but iambs are afoot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While Blake's original uses trochees, it is the disruption of such that truly shapes the rhythm. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Pretty straightforward iambic pentameter, except for the strong trochaic substitution in the first line and the two trochees that open line10. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The connections become most clear when we acknowledge that musicians do the same things poets do, only without trochees or consonants. ❋ Amy Gerstler (2010)

Things like the trochees of 'Ending Chairs' and the phrasing of the poem 'Dark Horse Pictures' started life as parts of songs, but I learned to keep the two processes separate. ❋ Philistine Press (2010)

Each [line] consisted of [four] trochees. ❋ Siphos (2004)

Me and [my gf] were [tucking] around so now we’re making a [West Virginian trochee] ❋ Steadied (2019)