trochee

Not that one needs to know an anapest from a trochee to enjoy the genre.

“Olive onion pigeon”: Those three trochees, with the repetition of O’s and N’s and the slant rhyme of “onion” and “pigeon,” suggest that I was attuned to the music of language.

A single stressed syllable, then a trochee, then a dactyl, for prosody nerds.

I heard the hokey trochee at least a dozen times as I sat at the interminable Wacker and Madison red light.

"Maggie Thatcher" – two fierce trochees set against the gentler iambic pulse of Britain's postwar welfare state.