spondee

They always close with what is meant for a spondee.

The spondee does not typically provide the basis for a metrical line.

The fifth is almost always a dactyl, and last must be a spondee.

The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee.

The rudiment of verse may possibly be found in the spondee.

The spondee is improperly rejected, as I shall presently show.

I began the "processes" by a suggestion of the spondee as the first step towards verse.

The spondee, as I observed, is the theme of the Greek line.

An example of a dactyl and a spondee in English are the words "fabulous pizza!"

The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second.

This term suggests a line of six dactyls, but a spondee can be substituted in most positions.

The sixth foot is always a spondee, though it may be anceps.

All these prosodists, we will say, reject the spondee and pyrrhic.

The proper spondee predominance is here preserved.

Spondee, a metrical foot used in poetry.

Spondee (grammar), a two-syllable word in which there is equal emphasis placed on both syllables.

In Ancient Greece the term "spondee" (libation) is meant type of sacrifice.

"Baptism" is by no means a bad spondee- perhaps because it happens to be a dactyl- of all the rest, however, I am dreadfully ashamed.

There is generally one accent in each foot of a line, unless the foot is a spondee (//).

(The spondee is proved mathematically not to exist.)"

But the innate monotony of the spondee has caused its disappearance as the basis of rhythm from all modern poetry.

Even that the penultimate is usually a dactyl may be clearly referred to the necessity of winding up with the distinctive spondee.

In local parlance, "Midland" is pronounced as a spondee, with nearly equal verbal emphasis on both first and last syllables.

This line is made up of five dactyls and a closing spondee, an unusual rhythmic arrangement that imitates the described action.

The other feet can be varied with a spondee, dactyl, tribrach, or more rarely an anapaest.