spondaic
IPA: spˈɑndˈeɪɪk
adjective
- (poetry) Having or relating to spondees.
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Examples of "spondaic" in Sentences
- For this, I say the line is almost entirely spondaic.
- Tennyson often made use of spondaic and pyrrhic substitutions in his work.
- It's the half line "bare ruined choirs" -- especially with its spondaic first foot -- that gets me. dhawhee commented at 8:15 AM~
- In the series of dactylic lines 17-22, Catullus no doubt intended to convey the idea of rapidity, as, in the spondaic line immediately following, of labour.
- Consideration of the most common of those variations, the spondaic (two stressed) and the pyrrhic (two unstressed), which are often found together forming what some have called the ionic foot, completes the chapter walking us into consideration of the line.
- If you read aloud the lines containing this word at the beginnings of the first two quatrains, you will hear something between resigned bitterness and sad determination conveyed by the spondaic stress on the first “must,” and a firmer, mounting determination in the second “must.”
- But the beauty of the descriptions in _Evangeline_ and the pathos -- somewhat too drawn out -- of the story made it dear to a multitude of readers who cared nothing about the technical disputes of Poe and other critics as to whether or not Longfellow's lines were sufficiently "spondaic" to truthfully represent the quantitative hexameters of Homer and Vergil.
- But the beauty of the descriptions in _Evangeline_ and the pathos -- somewhat too drawn out -- of the story made it dear to a multitude of readers who cared nothing about the technical disputes of Poe and other critics as to whether or not Longfellow's lines were sufficiently "spondaic" to represent truthfully the quantitative hexameters of Homer and Vergil.
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