Sinister: poetry question

[FoxInASnow at xxx.com]

> I have a poetry question,and seeing as we're getting back into the poetry 
>  spirit..what is 'troaich triameter'?it would be much appreciated.I can't 
>  find anything on it,but maybe I am spelling wrong. See,I get bonus marks 
if 
>  I write a poem in that style,but my english teacher wouldn't define it for 
>  me,he merely smiled and shook his head mysteriously...ohh!

Oh oh oh, i KNOW this one. 

A trochee goes DA dah, like heartbreak or warthog or tunesmith. And trimeter 
just means three feet per line, so each line of a poem in trochaic trimeter 
would go DA da DA da DA da. Other words to impress your teacher are: iamb (da 
DA, like in "iambic pentameter," five feet per line of da DAs, like 
Shakespeare used - iambs are the closest to natural speech), dactyl (DA da 
da), anapest (da da DA), and spondee (DA DA or any other absence of the other 
four patterns).

Trying to think of an example, the first bit of trochaic trimeter i came up 
with was: "If you want my body, and you think i'm sexy, come on sugar let me 
know" though that features an extra beat at the end, the "know," so it isn't 
quite technically trimeter in the last line. Ha.

Good thing for my English major. Why doesn't the poetry parrot visit ME?

Jess
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