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Unread 09-11-2001, 07:35 AM
Carol Taylor Carol Taylor is offline
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Solan, there is no difference between an inverted iamb and a trochee except the name, or an inverted trochee and an iamb. They are opposite sides of the same coin. While a trochee is very common at the beginning of an iambic line and may occur elsewhere in the iambic line, it doesn't work so very well at the end. What you'd use instead is an iamb with a hyper syllable or feminine ending.

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