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Definition of spondee in English: spondeenoun ˈspɒndiːˈspɑndi Prosody A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. Example sentencesExamples - Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
- And if counting the spondees in the dactyls might have distracted me from what the words were saying (it didn't), wondering about the parenthetical insertions pulled me back in.
- The ominous tone maintained throughout the poem is reinforced by the spondees that open and close the last line.
- His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
- The forceful spondees convey the inevitability of her intentions.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek spondeios (pous) '(foot) of a libation', from spondē 'libation' (being characteristic of music accompanying libations). Definition of spondee in US English: spondeenounˈspɑndiˈspändē Prosody A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. Example sentencesExamples - And if counting the spondees in the dactyls might have distracted me from what the words were saying (it didn't), wondering about the parenthetical insertions pulled me back in.
- The forceful spondees convey the inevitability of her intentions.
- His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
- Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
- The ominous tone maintained throughout the poem is reinforced by the spondees that open and close the last line.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek spondeios (pous) ‘(foot) of a libation’, from spondē ‘libation’ (being characteristic of music accompanying libations). |