trochaic
Iambic rhythms are described as "ascending" because they ascend from a low to a high level of stress, while trochaic and dactylic rhythms are "descending."
He argues that English dactylic verse uses dactyls very irregularly.
The pattern here is known as a dactyl (- ..) and these are dactylic feet.
She recognised Shostakovich's incessant dactylic rhythms.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Literature
accentual
action hero
alliterative
alternative history
anapest
fiction
fictionality
fictionally
fictive
fictively
non-canonical
non-character
non-literary
non-metrical
non-poetic
sympathetically
tanka
tartan noir
theatrics
threnody