In my recent posting on double trochees and the Grelling-Nelson Paradox, I noted that trochee is a trochee, as are Grelling, Nelson, Arnold, Zwicky, and double. But trochee is prosodically different from the rest, in the same way that robot in the double trochee Robot ninja! is prosodically different from ninja. There are two sets: trochee-type trochees: … Continue reading Metrical note