What is a trochaic dimeter?

Answer 1

Trochaic pentameter is a line with 5 trochaic feet, or stresses.

For example: Bobby wanted candy Tuesday evening

This is in contrast to iambic pentameter which has 5 iambic feet, or stresses:

The bird upon electric chord is flaming

Answer 2

A trochaic pentameter is a way to write poetry. A trochee is where a word has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. The word pentameter means that there are five trochees per line.

Answer 3

Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of fourtrochaicfeet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four trochees. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.

Answer 4

A trochaic dimeter is a metrical unit having two poetical measures or meters, one stressed and the next unstressed.

Answer 5

Trochaic is a meter beginning with stress, followed by unstress; Twinkle, twinkle, little star: ( " ' " ' " ' " ) ...is a good example.