Editing Trochee (section)

===Latin===
{{see|Metres of Roman comedy}}
In Greek and Latin, the syllabic structure deals with long and short syllables, rather than accented and unaccented. Trochaic meter was rarely used by the Latin poets in the classical period, except in certain passages of the tragedies and the comedies.<ref>Gustavus Fischer, "Prosody", ''Etymology and an introduction to syntax'' (''Latin Grammar'', Volume 1), J. W. Schermerhorn (1876) p. 395.</ref> The two main metres used in comedy were the [[trochaic septenarius]] and trochaic octonarius.