trochaic glory

[rone]

snip snap, snip snap, little trochee!
iambs make my poem pokey!
anapests just make it sappy,
you just make it oh-so-happy!

amphibrachs sound very choppy,
dactyls make the rhythm sloppy.
trochees are the foot for me,
they fill me up with joy and glee!

Comments

[fredfred.livejournal.com]

Nice! And it almost scans to 'twinkle twinkle little star'.

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Awww! joy and glee indeed!

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Sing it! :-)

[palecur.livejournal.com]

You have a gift for Ogden Nash-y fun-verse. It is nifty!

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

You win the Nerd of the Day award. We all get follow-ups for digging on the poem.

Weird.

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

All my high-school English teachers (and hence all my fellow students) pronounced this word as in French. It seemed so perfectly ironic that "trochee" should be an iamb when "iamb" was a trochee. All these years and I never even noticed that M-W doesn't admit to such a pronunciation at all.