This is an example of trochaic trimeter that employs catalexis, so that the last syllable is cut off: / * | / * | / (*). As with many poems by William Blake, the meter is highly rhythmic but not mechanical.
/ * |
/ * | /
(*)
Why should joys be sweet
Used with deceit, ["used" is pronounced with two
syllables]
Nor with sorrows meet?
But an honest joy
Does itself destroy
For a harlot coy.
Here's another by John Keats:
/ * | / * |
/ (*)
HITHER hither, love---
'Tis a shady mead---
Hither, hither, love!
Let us feed and feed!
Hither, hither, sweet---
'Tis a cowslip bed---
Hither, hither, sweet!
'Tis with dew bespread!
"The Flower" by Tennyson is even more ambiguous; it could possibly be considered as iambic trimeter with a lot of headless lines, but there are enough lines that begin with a stressed syllable to consider it trochaic trimeter. In that case, though, there are some lines to which an initial syllable has been added; this is anacrusis.
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
To and fro they went
Thro' my garden bower,
And muttering discontent
Cursed me and my flower.
Then it grew so tall
It wore a crown of light,
But thieves from o'er the wall
Stole the seed by night.
Sow'd it far and wide
By every town and tower,
Till all the people cried,
"Splendid is the flower!"
These lines by Henry Constable seem best interpreted as (partly) catalectic trochaic trimeter:
Venus fair did ride,
Silver doves they drew her [perfect trochaic trimeter: / * | *
/ | / *]
By the pleasant lawns,
Ere the sun did rise;
Vesta's beauty rich
Opened wide to view her,
Philomel records
Pleasing harmonies;
Every bird of spring
Cheerfully did sing,