A trochee or choree, choreus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. Examples Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha is written almost entirely in trochees, barring the occasional substitution (iamb, spondee, pyrrhic, etc.). » :Should you ask me, whence these stories? :Whence these legends and traditions, » :With the odours of the forest, :With the dew and damp of meadows, In the second line, "and tra-" is a pyrrhic substitution, as… (More on Trochaic)