Trochees Poems - Poems about Trochees

...Inspired by “Poems and Poets” by Anne Winter “For once in my life, I want to be a poem” — Anne Winter If I were a poem could my poem be a poet? If such could be done who besides ......

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...O’ Pat Pattison, you, my brilliant teacher, I would shower in praises, had you not taught me better! for cliches void of thought are as worthwhile as a couch surfin’ moocher! O’ masterful and d......

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...You can’t force a poem, although you can try; it seems that’s a maxim, but I don’t know why. You smash it and bash it and beat to a pulp, like using sledgehammers when trying to sculpt. Sometimes......

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...Today I feel iambic! I would say of all the meters, I like it the best. An iamb starts with some soft sound to say then ev'ry second syllable is stressed. Trochees likewise, alternate their str......

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... Here’s a little form I found, from a gal you know. Trochees give a rhythmic sound to its metered flow. Lines must take syllabic care, keeping proper score: seven on the first and th......

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...Do footles ever fournicate? From two come more, and soon there’s eight The image conjured up ain’t great Them spondees, trochees on a date Gosh, aren’t they cute? They’re all the rage right th......

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... if meter refers to a poem’s beat ~ why are iambs, spondees, and trochees feet? ---------- Measuring with Metrics by Milt Hankins got me thinking.........

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...The Composition of Shadows by Michael R. Burch “I made it out of a mouthful of air.”—W. B. Yeats We breathe and so we write; the night hums softly its accompaniment. Pale phosphors burn; the......

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...My poetry looks like a heavensickness. The paradise from which I was exiled is locked up tight. Nor luck, nor mental quickness, nor tractable iambuses, nor wild, limped on their right leg troch......

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...Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak The above lines, which are not at all poetic, are written in a specific rhythm, o......

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