spondee
IPA: spˈɑndˈi
noun
- (poetry) A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.
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Examples of "spondee" in Sentences
- The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee.
- Spondee is the title of a piece composed by IDM duo Matmos.
- The sixth foot is always a spondee, though it may be anceps.
- Most years from 1300 to 1999 started with more of a spondee.
- But the point is, the spondee is not exclusive in this regard.
- This line is nearly all dactyls except for the spondee at lata e.
- However, Keats incorporates spondees in 37 of the 250 metrical feet.
- The following is a possible analysis, and shows the role of the spondee.
- Each foot is either a dactyl heavy light light or a spondee heavy heavy .
- Iambs, spondee, trochee were liberally abused in rhythms broken and confused;
- The first two quatrains have a somber tone, a heaviness emphasized by the repeating phrase “if we must die,” with its sonorous spondee.
- This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.
- But after the volta, the same word has changed its intensity entirely, the spondee conveying an unstoppable force that floods over the expected unstressed syllable in irresistible exhortation.
- It's in a beat called iambic trimeter: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM, which keeps it light-hearted, but generally when Kunitz uses the word "God" he does so in what's called a spondee, with two strong syllables in succession.
- Horace's Epicuri de grege, but let none add to it the sad spondee which ends the hemistich, "is more unsettling, since it mainly seems devoted to playing, through negation and elaborate periphrasis, with the possibility of referring to its subject as" an
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