I found it, y'all, I found the best derivative of the TMNT logo
March 13, 2024 at 10:14 PM
I found it, y'all, I found the best derivative of the TMNT logo
“I love my curvy wife”: iambic trimeter
“me, an intellectual”: trochaic trimeter
“My body is ready”: amphibrachic dimeter
“Sorry to this man”: trochaic trimeter catalectic
“haha jk…unless?”: iambic trimeter
“me, an intellectual”: trochaic trimeter
“My body is ready”: amphibrachic dimeter
“Sorry to this man”: trochaic trimeter catalectic
“haha jk…unless?”: iambic trimeter
January 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“I love my curvy wife”: iambic trimeter
“me, an intellectual”: trochaic trimeter
“My body is ready”: amphibrachic dimeter
“Sorry to this man”: trochaic trimeter catalectic
“haha jk…unless?”: iambic trimeter
“me, an intellectual”: trochaic trimeter
“My body is ready”: amphibrachic dimeter
“Sorry to this man”: trochaic trimeter catalectic
“haha jk…unless?”: iambic trimeter
it’s satisfyingly trochaic
June 18, 2026 at 11:47 PM
it’s satisfyingly trochaic
trochaic pentameter
NEE-tuh, like a cheetah, but for transit 🐆 🚇
September 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
trochaic pentameter
I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)
The Spelling Bee is DEAD to me.
March 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM
The Spelling Bee is DEAD to me.
You're holding it backwards. It's trochaic tetrameter
February 24, 2026 at 2:02 PM
You're holding it backwards. It's trochaic tetrameter
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Seuss wrote mostly in amphibrachic tetrameter, whereas Cobain was more trochaic
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Seuss wrote mostly in amphibrachic tetrameter, whereas Cobain was more trochaic
SESTINA (2026) - He knows how to save the world. He just needs to write the right prompt - in trochaic tetrameter. Starring Liam Neeson.
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
SESTINA (2026) - He knows how to save the world. He just needs to write the right prompt - in trochaic tetrameter. Starring Liam Neeson.
Write this in trochaic pentameter
March 21, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Write this in trochaic pentameter
That's trochaic tetrameter, you monster!
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
That's trochaic tetrameter, you monster!
One of mine from 2017, about the use/mention distinction:
Roses are red,
“Roses” trochaic.
Thou art delightful;
“Thou” is archaic.
#linguistics #linguentines
Roses are red,
“Roses” trochaic.
Thou art delightful;
“Thou” is archaic.
#linguistics #linguentines
February 6, 2024 at 5:27 PM
One of mine from 2017, about the use/mention distinction:
Roses are red,
“Roses” trochaic.
Thou art delightful;
“Thou” is archaic.
#linguistics #linguentines
Roses are red,
“Roses” trochaic.
Thou art delightful;
“Thou” is archaic.
#linguistics #linguentines
What if my space opera is an actual opera written in trochaic verse?
September 29, 2026 at 11:07 PM
What if my space opera is an actual opera written in trochaic verse?
Been reading some formal poetry lately and all I can think is
August 21, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Been reading some formal poetry lately and all I can think is
My poor students when I had them learn trochaic diameter and how to match poetic meter to musical meter and made them rap last class and NOW THIS
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found out my Intro to Creative Writing class is always full because I have the reputation of “she’s the one who doesn’t make you do so much poetry” ☠️
October 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
My poor students when I had them learn trochaic diameter and how to match poetic meter to musical meter and made them rap last class and NOW THIS
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It's just trochaic tetrameter. That's why you can sing The Raven to the TMNT song.
"Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'
HEROES IN A HALFSHELL—TURTLE POWER!"
"Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'
HEROES IN A HALFSHELL—TURTLE POWER!"
the teenage mutant ninja turtles cadence is the new iambic pentameter
March 1, 2024 at 5:23 PM
It's just trochaic tetrameter. That's why you can sing The Raven to the TMNT song.
"Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'
HEROES IN A HALFSHELL—TURTLE POWER!"
"Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'
HEROES IN A HALFSHELL—TURTLE POWER!"
It would have to be fuck-ed, otherwise you mess up the trochaic tetrameter.
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September 29, 2026 at 9:26 PM
It would have to be fuck-ed, otherwise you mess up the trochaic tetrameter.
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seussy hypno that makes you talk in trochaic tetrameter
December 24, 2024 at 3:17 AM
seussy hypno that makes you talk in trochaic tetrameter
Nice article. Small nitpick: in the poem example, you say “it wrote a poem in trochaic hexameter because I asked”, which isn’t true: the link shows that it mistakenly wrote a poem in trochaic octameter while claiming it is hexameter.
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Nice article. Small nitpick: in the poem example, you say “it wrote a poem in trochaic hexameter because I asked”, which isn’t true: the link shows that it mistakenly wrote a poem in trochaic octameter while claiming it is hexameter.
She’s named #Melody—
beautiful and trochaic,
rising, then falling.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky #micropoem
beautiful and trochaic,
rising, then falling.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky #micropoem
May 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
She’s named #Melody—
beautiful and trochaic,
rising, then falling.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky #micropoem
beautiful and trochaic,
rising, then falling.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky #micropoem
Trochaic tetrameters randomly appearing in SF movie dialogue, the first in a series.
May 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Trochaic tetrameters randomly appearing in SF movie dialogue, the first in a series.
She’s an esteemed trochaic poet, a Troch Goat, if you will-
April 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
She’s an esteemed trochaic poet, a Troch Goat, if you will-
trochaic octameter is an enabler
October 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
trochaic octameter is an enabler