Trochee is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one (e.g., 'TAH-ble'). It also refers to any word or syllable with that stress pattern. In poetry, trochaic meter alternates strong-weak syllables, creating a marching rhythm. The term comes from Greek via Latin, and is central to understanding prosody and scansion in verse and related linguistic descriptions.
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