Talk:Molossus (poetry)

This doesn't seem like a plausible example. Since the subsequent lines have three feet each, the first line should be interpreted as having three one-syllable feet, not one three syllable foot.

Molossus words
These are rare. 'Chimpanzee' is the only one I can think of. Are there others?

Oliver Low (talk) 13:28, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

"Bourgeoisie". Some American pronunciations of "factory". See Masefield's _Cargoes_ for lots of phrase-level examples: "cheap tin trays". MarkBernstein (talk) 18:26, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Molossus example phrase
"World Wide Web," maybe? Since if it was in a poem it would undoubtedly be a molossus?

Robert Frost Poem?
I had a textbook that used as an example the Robert Frost Poem:

The old dog barks backwards without getting up. / I can remember when he was a pup.

That first line's pattern is u - - - - u u - - u -. I don't know the "official" scansion, but there must be something can be made of those four consecutive longs. Clsn (talk) 19:12, 24 November 2020 (UTC)