The Kalevala's metre is a form of trochaic tetrameter that is known as the Kalevala metre.

The alteration of normal and broken tetrameters is a characteristic difference between the Kalevala metre and other forms of trochaic tetrameter.

There have been several English translations of the original German verses over the years, but all have maintained the original trochaic tetrameter:

However the second parabasis ( 1113 – 30 ) is in a shortened form, comprising an epirrhema in trochaic tetrameter but without the songs and the antepirrhema needed for a conventional, symmetrical scene.

This play features a symmetrical scene inside another symmetrical scene-one pair of scenes ( 303-21 and 382-96 ) features trochaic tetrameter and the other ( 322-381 and 398-456 ) features iambic tetrameter.

The Finnish national epic Kalevala, like much old Finnish poetry, is written in a variation of trochaic tetrameter.

Instead it has been adapted so as to represent the meter ( trochaic tetrameter ), rhyme scheme, and sense of the original text.

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero.

The Song of Hiawatha was written in trochaic tetrameter, the same meter as Kalevala, the Finnish epic reconstructed by Elias Lönnrot from fragments of folk poetry.

Longfellow ’ s choice of trochaic tetrameter for his poem has an artificiality that the Kalevala, in its own language, does not.

He was not the first American poet to use the trochaic ( or tetrameter ) in writing Indian romances.

Schoolcraft had written a romantic poem, Alhalla, or the Lord of Talladega ( 1843 ) in trochaic tetrameter, about which he commented in his preface:

The rhyme is constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic, ( each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables, with the stress falling on the first syllable in a pair ; the last foot in the line missing the unstressed syllable ), which is common in nursery rhymes.

At these events were brief and burlesque tone because they contained elements of satyr, then the language became gradually more severe and also changed the meter, which trochaic tetrameter, to the more prosaic, became iambic trimeter.

Most of the satires of Lucilius were written in hexameters, but, so far as an opinion can be formed from a number of unconnected fragments, he seems to have written the trochaic tetrameter with a smoothness, clearness and simplicity which he never attained in handling the hexameter.

" is written in trochaic tetrameter, which is the other meter that Dr. Seuss typically used.

" Much of the poem follows the metrical pattern of its first line and can be scanned as trochaic tetrameter catalectic.

Written in a variation of unrhymed trochaic tetrameter with occasional Pyrrhic substitutions, it is considered poetry.

The libretto by Bel ' sky borrows many lines from and largely emulates the style of Pushkin's poem, which is written in couplets of trochaic tetrameter.

The poem is in trochaic tetrameter, " in imitation of, and argument with the most famous Russian war poem, Aleksandr Tvardovsky's Vasili Tyorkin.

However, in very rare contexts where catalexis might be considered probable ( e. g., in English trochaic tetrameter, or in differentiating acatalectic verses from surrounding catalectic ones ), explicit expression of the verse's metrical completeness may be achieved by using the term.

The first is in trochaic tetrameter, and the second in trochaic tetrameter catalectic ( or headless iambic tetrameter ).

Generally, the meter is trochaic octameter – eight trochaic feet per line, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.

These lines are primarily trochaic, with the last syllable dropped so that the line ends with a stressed syllable to give a strong rhyme or masculine rhyme.

Moreover, iambic pentameter, instead of the steady alternation of lighter and heavier beats of four-beat, permits principal accents, that is accents on the most significant words, to occur at various points in a line as long as they are on the even – numbered syllables, or on the first syllable, in the case of an initial trochaic inversion.

The sonnets are also all metered, but their meters vary more greatly between poems ; dactylic and trochaic are the most common feet, with line length varying greatly, sometimes even within a particular sonnet.

Technically speaking an iambic tune, for instance, cannot be used with words of, say, trochaic metre.

It is a single quatrain, with external rhymes that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre, which is common in nursery rhymes.

" The trochaic verse was quoted by the Homeric scholar Heraclitus ( commentator ) | Heraclitus, who said that Archilochus used the image to describe war with the Thracians.

The rhyme is in made up of quatrains, with a rhyming scheme of abcb ( with occasional internal rhymes ), using falling rhymes ( where the rhyme sound is on a relatively unstressed syllable: de-emphasising the rhyme ) and a trochaic rhythm ( with the stress falling on the first of a pair of syllables ), know as a ballad form, which is common in nursery rhymes.

The trochaic metre is most popular with around 95 % of dainas being in it.

In Peace the rhythm is trochaic but the Chorus enters joyfully and its only argument with the protagonist is over its inability to stop dancing ( 299-345 ), an inventive use of a conventional parados.

Since the stress never falls on the final syllable in Medieval Latin, the language is ideal for trochaic verse.

The final four syllables form a trochaic cadence.

The lyric poet was distinguished from the writer of plays ( although Athenian drama included choral odes, in lyric form ), the writer of trochaic and iambic verses ( which were recited ), the writer of elegies ( accompanied by the flute, rather than the lyre ) and the writer of epic.

It consists of ninety-three verses in trochaic septenarius, and is divided into strophes of unequal length by the refrain:

It is a gruesome fate-tragedy in the trochaic measure of the Spanish drama, already made popular by Adolf Müllner in his Schuld.

There is a heated argument between the protagonist and the Chorus in couplets of long trochaic verses framed by a stropheand antistrophe ( 303-334 ) but the main arguments for and against war are conducted in ordinary dialogue of iambic trimeter, including input from Lamachus as the antagonist.

to xxix., which were written in the trochaic and iambic metres that had been employed by Ennius and Pacuvius in their Saturae.

Perhaps owing to its simplicity, though, trochaic meter is fairly common in children's rhymes:

The hymn consists of five quatrains in the meter trochaic heptameter.

The first four lines are in the meter of trochaic trimeter.