Crossword-Solution: TROCHEE 7 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The man is rustic, illiterate; he never heard of Aristotle, he would be at a loss to distinguish between a trochee and a Titian, and if you mentioned Boileau to him would probably imagine you were talking of cookery.

Jenkin was not so easily pleased, and readily discovered that the heroic line consists of four groups, or, if you prefer the phrase, contains four pauses: ‘All night | the dreadless | angel | unpursued.’ Four groups, each practically uttered as one word: the first, in this case, an iamb; the second, an amphibrachys; the third, a trochee; and the fourth, an amphimacer; and yet our schoolboy, with no other liberty but that of inflicting pain, had triumphantly scanned it as five iambs.

First he had, in sport, named some of them after the metrical feet of Latin verse, which had been but ill friends of his in his school days, and in his kennel there was a Troch, Iamb, Spond and Dact, whose full names were Trochee, Iambus, Spondee and Dactyl.

And as it is not poets who follow laws, but precede them--as trochee and iambic, alcaic and hexameter, are the inventions of grammarians following on the trail of genius--so it behoves the Aristotle who would discover the laws of the rhythm of prose to study the masters of the art, masters by instinct and a faultless ear and the grace of God, and endeavour by patient induction to wrest from their sentences the secrets of their harmonies.

The usual iambic flow is disturbed in both lines by the very same ripple, viz., a trochee in the second foot, _placid_ in the one line, _bosom_ in the other.