A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable. Examples of trochaic words include “garden” and “highway.” William Blake opens “The Tyger” with a predominantly trochaic line: “Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright.” Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven” is mainly trochaic.

How do you identify a trochee?

In English poetry, the definition of trochee is a type of metrical foot consisting of two syllables—the first is stressed and the second is an unstressed syllable. In Greek and Latin poetry, a trochee is a long syllable followed by a short syllable.

What is trochee in a poem?

A trochee (the adjective is "trochaic") is a metrical foot comprised of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. ... Whole poems in trochaic verse are rare in modern poetry, but one still finds them in popular verse like songs, chants, nursery rhymes, proverbs, riddles, slogans, and jingles.