These are examples of trochaic tetrameter. The most common form this meter takes involves catalexis, where the final unaccented syllable is cut off: / * | / * | / * | /  --but there are also many examples of true trochaic tetrameter: / * | / * | / * | / *

The first stanza of this poem by Emily Brontë is trochaic tetrameter; in subsequent stanzas it turns iambic:

                /       *  |   /   * | /   * |  /    (*)
            MILD the mist upon the hill

               /    * | /    * |  /        * |  /   *
            Telling not of storms tomorrow;
            No, the day has wept its fill,
            Spent its store of silent sorrow.

Robert Herrick's "The Fairies" is in catalectic trochaic tetrameter, though hardly a single line is exactly that. The fifth and sixth lines end with feminine rhyme and a hypermetric syllable.

                           If ye will with Mab find grace,
                            Set each platter in his place;
                            Rake the fire up, and get
                            Water in, ere sun be set.
                            Wash your pails and cleanse your dairies,
                            Sluts are loathsome to the fairies;
                            Sweep your house; Who doth not so,
                            Mab will pinch her by the toe.
 

Here's some catalectic trochaic tetrameter from the eighteenth century:

            Turn to the contrasted scene,
            Where, beyond these hoary piles,
            Gay upon the rising green,
            Many an Attic building smiles.

            Painted gardens--grots--and groves,
            Intermingling shade and light,
            Lengthen'd vistas, green alcoves,
            Join to give the eye delight.

            Hamlets--villages, and spires,
            Scatter'd on the landscape lie,
            Till the distant view retires,
            Closing in an azure sky.
                            --John Cunningham
 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gives us more mechanical, complete, trochaic tetrameters in Hiawatha:

                               Thus the youthful Hiawatha
                            Said within himself and pondered,
                            Much perplexed by various feelings,
                            Listless, longing, hoping, fearing,
                            Dreaming still of Minnehaha,
                            Of the lovely Laughing Water,
                            In the land of the Dacotahs.

William Blake's "The Tyger" is mostly in insistent catalectic trochaics:

                            Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
                            In the forest of the night
                            What immortal hand or eye
                            Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

                            In what distant deeps or skies
                            Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
                            On what wings dare he aspire?
                            What the hand dare seize the fire?
 

Yeats used the same meter in one of his last poems, "Under Ben Bulben" (the fourth and fifth lines below have an extra syllable at the beginning, or anacrusis):

                            Irish poets, earn your trade,
                            Sing whatever is well made,
                            Scorn the sort now growing up
                            All out of shape from toe to top,
                            Their unremembering hearts and heads
                            Base-born products of base beds.