ditrochee

[ dahy-troh-kee ]

nounProsody.
  1. a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.

Origin of ditrochee

1
1700–10; <Latin ditrochaeus<Greek ditróchaios, equivalent to di-di-1 + trochaîostrochee

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