Trochaic tetrameter¶
trochaic_tetrameter · form · validated
Lines of four trochaic feet, falling rather than rising in stress.
Provenance¶
- Source: Traditional; the metre of the Kalevala and of Hiawatha
- Attribution:
traditional— classical or folk; no single origin to name - Checkability:
self— decidable from the text and its parameters alone - Attested:
codified— formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author
Details¶
- Kind: restrictive
- Languages: en
- Requires:
tokens,stress,syllables.heuristic - Deterministic: yes
Prompt hint¶
Write lines of four trochees, each foot stressed then unstressed.
Examples¶
falling-metre¶
en — this text satisfies the procedure.
never having any water
seldom eating apple butter
Source: constructed example; the metre of the Kalevala
rising-metre¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
the cat can see the moon above the tree
Source: constructed counterexample; this is iambic
unknown-word-mid-line¶
en — this text satisfies the procedure.
flurbish having any water
seldom eating apple butter
Source: constructed example; an invented word reaches the stress fallback
heine-leise-zieht¶
de — this text satisfies the procedure.
Leise zieht durch mein Gemüte
Source: Heinrich Heine, Neuer Frühling (1831), Prolog