trochaic

Mr. Sharma (India): I see you, Mr. President, and members of the Council looking at me with some alarm, but I speak on the trochaic principle: the short follows the long.
M. Sharma (Inde) (parle en anglais) : Je vois que vous-même, Monsieur le Président et les membres du Conseil, me regardez avec une certaine préoccupation mais je parle du principe trochaïque : le court suit le long.
Te teacher asked us to write a poem with trochaic meter.
La professeure nous a demandé d'écrire un poème en mètre trochaique.
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