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(36.) Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic.
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-suitable to the voices of those effeminate singers, the ana-
pæst was generally preferred to the spondee in both divi-
sions of the verse, particularly the latter and that the
penultimate foot of the whole line was most commonly a
tribrachys.
Trochaic verses bear a near affinity to Iambic : for, as
single short and long syllables alternately recur in the pure
Iambic and pure Trochaic, the addition or retrenchment
of a syllable at the beginning of a pure Iambic line renders
it pure Trochaic, and the addition or retrenchment of a
syllable at the beginning of a pure Trochaic line renders it
pure Iambic with the deficiency (or redundancy) of a
syllable, in each case, at the end of the verse.
(No. 36.)-Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic.
The Catalectic Trochaic Tetrameter (or Octonarius)
consists of seven feet (properly all trochees) followed by a
catalectic syllable, as