Ośmiostopowiec trocheiczny

Ośmiostopowiec trocheiczny – format wiersza sylabotonicznego mieszczący się w ramach szesnastozgłoskowca. Występuje między innymi w Balladzie bezludnej Bolesława Leśmiana^[1]:

Jeno miejsce, gdzie być mogła, jeszcze trwało i szumiało,

Próżne miejsce na te dusze, wonne miejsce na to ciało.

Ww literaturze anglojęzycznej ośmiostopowiec trocheiczny występuje między innymi w Kruku^[2] Edgara Allana Poego, wierszu Locksley Hall Alfreda Tennysona i wierszu A toccata of Galupppi's Roberta Browninga:

In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast;

In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

(Locksley Hall)

Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!

I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind;

But although I take your meaning, 'tis with such a heavy mind!

(A toccata of Galupppi's)^[3]

Również Edwin Arlington Robinson posłużył się ośmiostopowcem trocheicznym w wierszu The valley of the shadow^[4]:

THERE were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow,

There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget;

There were fires of grief and fear that are a few forgotten ashes,

There were sparks of recognition that are not forgotten yet.

For at first, with an amazed and overwhelming indignation 5

At a measureless malfeasance that obscurely willed it thus,

They were lost and unacquainted—till they found themselves in others,

Who had groped as they were groping where dim ways were perilous.

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