The trochaic measures in The Spanish Gypsy are in imitation of the similar forms in Spanish poetry. See p. [114], below.
Two-stress anapestic.
(In combination with three-stress:)
Like a gloomy stain
On the emerald main
Alpheus rushed behind,—
As an eagle pursuing
A dove to its ruin
Down the streams of the cloudy wind.
(With feminine ending:)
He is gone on the mountain,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
The font, reappearing,
From the raindrops shall borrow,
But to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow!
(Scott: Coronach, from The Lady of the Lake, Canto 3. 1810.)
(In combination with four-stress:)
Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face.
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote
I am nearing the place,
The power of the night, the press of the storm,
The post of the foe;
Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form,
Yet the strong man must go.