Since trochees consist of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, we can see that the line which uses all trochees is:
C. Toy store sausages swung by.
The type of metrical foot known as trochee consists of a <u>stressed </u><u>syllable followed by an </u><u>unstressed </u><u>syllable</u>. The word "heaven" could be seen as an example of trochee.
In a poem, a trochee can appear as one word with two syllables, like the example above, or as two words. In this case, the first word would be stressed while the second one would not.
The rhythm we notice while reading a line with trochees is: DUM dum DUM dum DUM dum.
That is what happens in line C. Let's highlight the stressed syllables so that we can notice the trochee pattern:
