What does trochee mean?
A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables. In poetry, a trochee is a unit of meter that consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
Example
"The poet's use of trochees created a sense of urgency in the narrative."
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