Crossword-Solution: TROCHEES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TROCHEES | anagram | THESCORE |
We have 3 clues for the answer “TROCHEES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Metrical scheme of "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater." | 1 answer |
| Some metrical feet | 3 answers |
| Metrical feet | 9 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZCEAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TROCHEES (5)
The fundamental measure is iambic tetrameter, as in the line-- "The rushes cried, _Abide, abide_"; but trochees, dactyls, or anapests are introduced in almost every line, yet without interfering with the time element of the verse.
But there is nothing new in English literature for some hundreds of years in combinations of dactyls, anapests or trochees, and without rhyme.
Halle, 1898.] Certainly those sun-burnt "doughboys" were not bothering themselves about trochees and iambi and such toys of cultivated "literary" persons; they were amusing themselves on the march by inventing words to fit the "goose-step." Their _Unus homo mille mille mille decollavimus_ which Professor Courthope scans as trochaic verse, [Footnote: _History of English Poetry_, vol.
But on trial, such material turned out to be very complex; the forms changed gradually, iambs becoming trochees and trochees changing into spondees.
These be heinous offences! A poet, of all men, should cherish the liquid consonants, and should resist the tendency of the populace to make trochees of all dissyllables.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–2000).