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Spondee   Listen
noun
Spondee  n.  (Pros.) A poetic foot of two long syllables.






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"Spondee" Quotes from Famous Books



... choice; but in the hexameter there is the greatest versative power. How different, for instance, are the first lines of the "Tale of Troy Divine," and the more familiar adventures of Ulysses. The ad libitum alternation of dactyl and spondee make the lively or the grave; and the whole metrical glow is all life and action, without hitch ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various



Words linked to "Spondee" :   metrical foot, metrical unit, foot, spondaic



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