Mammoth Memory

Trochaic monometer

A trochaic foot (known as a trochee) has a long syllable followed by a short syllable (LS or /U).

 

Monometer is one foot per line.

 

Example

Monometer is one foot per line

Rivers,

rangers,

climbers,

dangers.

 

Bears and

mountains,

pristine

fountains.

Anonymous – Yellowstone Park

 

A closer look at the feet in this poem

 

U = short syllable; / = long syllable

trochaic monometer example 

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