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Metrical foot with two long (or accented) syllables
A spondee (Latin: spondeus) is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed
Spondee
Poetic meter consisting of six feet
short syllables, written – ᴗ ᴗ) or a spondee (two long syllables, written – –). The last foot contains either a spondee or a long syllable followed by one
Dactylic_hexameter
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
six feet making up the line was either a dactyl (long-short-short) or a spondee (long-long): a "long syllable" was literally one that took longer to pronounce
Metre_(poetry)
Line consisting of four iambic feet
tetrameter consists of four metra two feet in length, consisting of a spondee and an iamb, or two iambs: | x – u – |. There usually is a caesura in the
Iambic_tetrameter
Topics referred to by the same term
up spondee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spondee is a metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables. Spondee may also refer to: "Spondee" (song)
Spondee_(disambiguation)
English occultist (1875–1947)
name for becoming famous was one consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee, as at the end of a hexameter: like Jeremy Taylor. Aleister Crowley fulfilled
Aleister_Crowley
2001 studio album by Matmos
Title Length 1. "Lipostudio...And So On" 5:35 2. "L.A.S.I.K." 3:57 3. "Spondee" 6:15 4. "Ur Tchun Tan Tse Qi" 5:05 5. "For Felix (And All the Rats)" 7:52
A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
A_Chance_to_Cut_Is_a_Chance_to_Cure
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Anapaest
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Bacchius
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
and a Spondee are quantitatively equal, each being 4 morae. These equivalences allow for easy substitutions of one foot by another e.g. a spondee can be
Latin_prosody
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Dactyl_(poetry)
Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
follow these rules: A foot can be made up of two long syllables (— —), a spondee; or a long and two short syllables, a dactyl (— ∪∪). The first four feet
Hexameter
Metrical foot used in formal poetry
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Antibacchius
Greek philosopher (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
break into the home of a virtuous woman, he sang a solemn tune with long spondees and the boys' "raging willfulness" was quelled. The Pythagoreans also placed
Pythagoras
4th-century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician
break into the home of a virtuous woman, he sang a solemn tune with long spondees and the boys' "raging willfulness" was quelled. The Roman historian Ammianus
Hypatia
Metrical foot
peace". The double stress on "White Chief" comes from the substitution of a spondee in place of the iamb, mirroring previous substitutions in the poem, rather
Molossus_(poetry)
Body of literary work by Roman poet Catullus from 62 to 54 BC
noted that in poems 2 to 26 the opening of the line is nearly always a spondee (– –), as in the above two examples, but in poems 27 to 60, as well as
Poetry_of_Catullus
Form of literature
unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (e.g. com-pre-hend) spondee—two stressed syllables together (e.g. heart-beat, four-teen) pyrrhic—two
Poetry
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Trochee
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Amphibrach
Warrior in the epic Mahabharata
of a grain" or the "helm or rudder". In another context, it refers to a spondee in Sanskrit prosody. In the Mahabharata and the Puranas, it is the name
Karna
Metric foot in Greek poetry
élabé se móros es Áïdos? élabé me kunòs odáx. Tennyson used pyrrhics and spondees quite frequently, for example, in In Memoriam: When the blood creeps and
Pyrrhic
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
◡ ◡ pyrrhus, dibrach ◡ – iamb (or iambus or jambus) – ◡ trochee, choree (or choreus) – – spondee
Metrical_foot
Representation of poetic meter
"-ions of sweet si-" is sometimes taken as a pyrrhic foot followed by a spondee, and sometimes as a single 4-syllable unit (a minor or rising ionic) that
Scansion
Form of literary device
in which a stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables. Spondee–A beat in a poetic line that consists of two accented syllables. It is
Poetic_device
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Iamb_(poetry)
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
lines he uses strongly-stressed offbeats (which can be interpreted as spondees) in the third foot to slow down the rhythm as he lists monosyllabic verbs
Iambic_pentameter
Stressed syllable
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Accent_(poetry)
Unit of Aeolic verse
"u" for a short syllable) is: "- u u - -" when the pattern ends with a spondee (i.e. --) or " -uu -u " if a trochee is intended. Hexameter lines often
Adonic
1819 poem by John Keats
the use of spondees in lines 31–34 creates a feeling of slow flight, and "in the final stanza . . . the distinctive use of scattered spondees, together
Ode_to_a_Nightingale
American record label
My Dad is Dead My Dad is Dead CD EP April Alaska Alaska CD EP May Spondee Spondee CD EP June Freedy Johnston Freedy Johnston CD EP July The Coctails
Hello_CD_of_the_Month_Club
Theory and practice of versification
six feet, known as dactyls (– u u) and spondees (– –). In this opening passage of the Iliad, dactyls and spondees are equally common, although overall in
Greek_prosody
1957 poem collection by Ted Hughes
"Hughes rejected the Latinate iamb in favour of bludgeoning trochees and spondees. The strong alliteration, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole gave his poems an
The_Hawk_in_the_Rain
English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)
a Somerset Maugham Award. The work favoured hard-hitting trochees and spondees reminiscent of Middle English — a style he used throughout his career —
Ted_Hughes
Latin epic poem by Virgil
up of dactyls (one long syllable followed by two short syllables) and spondees (two long syllables). This epic consists of twelve books, and the narrative
Aeneid
Diacritical mark (◌́)
opposed to rebél), or áll trádes, to show that the phrase is pronounced as a spondee, rather than the more natural iamb. It can indicate the sounding of an
Acute_accent
Poetic meter of four metrical feet
Diamonds") Spondaic tetrameter: Long sounds move slow Pyrrhic tetrameter (with spondees ["white breast" and "dim sea"]): And the white breast of the dim sea Amphibrachic
Tetrameter
Repeating 3 to 6-syllable section of a poetic metre
metron is ᴗᴗ – ᴗᴗ –, a cretic metron – ᴗ –, a baccheus is ᴗ – –, and a spondee is – –. This definition of the metron as having two long elements does
Metron_(poetry)
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
couplet. It features two halves, each consisting of two dactyls, for which spondees can be substituted in the first half only, followed by a longum. Thus the
Dactylic_pentameter
Poem by Horace
contraction be a spondee instead of a dactyl) followed by an ithyphallic [de] (three trochees or brevis in longo two followed by a spondee), with a penthemimeral [de]
Odes_1.4
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Cretic
Metrical foot
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Tribrach_(poetry)
Poetic verse form
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Dactylic_tetrameter
Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
example, the poem's insistent iambic pentameter is often interrupted by spondees (metrical feet that consist of two long syllables); such laboured language
Ulysses_(poem)
Form of literature, in verse
Elision Foot Intonation Meter Mora Prosody Rhythm Scansion Stanza Syllable spondee – two stressed syllables together iamb – unstressed syllable followed by
Outline_of_poetry
Aspect of Vedic studies
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Sanskrit_prosody
1819 poem by John Keats
line), which was common in his earlier works. However, Keats incorporates spondees in 37 of the 250 metrical feet. Caesurae are never placed before the fourth
Ode_on_a_Grecian_Urn
fourth) was favored by ancient prose writers since, unlike the dactyl, spondee, trochee, and iamb, it was not associated with a particular poetic meter
Paeon_(prosody)
1824 composition by Franz Schubert
appears in the Impromptu in B-flat written three years later). The dactyl–spondee rhythm pervading this movement unmistakably shows the influence of Beethoven's
String Quartet No. 13 (Schubert)
String_Quartet_No._13_(Schubert)
Verse of the classic meter
are often a trochee (– u) in Catullus, but are usually standardised to a spondee (– –) in Horace's version of the metre. Seneca in his tragedies has two
Glyconic
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
tetrameter a priore). Thus, a spondee substitutes for a dactyl in the third line, but the lines end with dactyls (not spondees). The final syllable of each
Alcmanian_verse
σπονδή, σπονδάς (spondḗ, spondás), σπονδεῖος, σπονδικός spondaic, Sponde, spondee sper- hope Latin spes, sperare despair, desperado, desperate, desperation
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/P–Z
septet in ABBA, ABBA, CDECDE or CDCDCD rhythmic pattern. sonneteer speaker spondee A foot consisting of two syllables of approximately equal stress. Spenserian
Glossary_of_literary_terms
Rhythmic sentence ending used in rhetoric
but only 11% of the clausulae in Livy's history. Conversely, the double spondee (e.g. accēpērunt – – – –) makes up 36% of Livy's clausulae, but only 11%
Clausula_(rhetoric)
Component of J. R. R. Tolkien's writing
"|"): `Old `Tom | `Bom-ba-`dil | `was a `mer- | -ry `fel-low consists of a spondee, two amphimacers, and an amphibrach: and, Zimmer wrote, Tolkien varies
Poetry in The Lord of the Rings
Poetry_in_The_Lord_of_the_Rings
Medieval music term
(dactyl)[citation needed] Short-short-long (anapest)[citation needed] Long-long (spondee) Short-short (pyrrhic) Rhythmic modes were the basis for the notation technique
Modus_(medieval_music)
8th-century English Bishop and saint
pedum regulis, didactive treatise on metrical feet, such as iambs and spondees. Epistola ad Geruntium, a letter written in Latin to Geraint, King of Dumnonia
Aldhelm
are normally dactyls, but can be spondees. The fifth foot is almost always a dactyl. The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee. The initial syllable
History_of_linguistics
Unexpected change in the syntactical structure of the sentence
anacoluthon as it discusses anacoluthon: Discussing, between moves, iamb and spondee Anacoluthon and the open vowel God the great peacock with his angel peacocks
Anacoluthon
Concepts in poetic meter
which are in two basic patterns: long–short–short (dactyl) or long–long (spondee). In the scansion of the line above, long syllables are uppercase, short
Diaeresis_(prosody)
Poem by William Shakespeare
more flexible conception of feet may find either a pyrrhic followed by a spondee, or the four-position minor ionic replacing two iambs. Metrists rejecting
Sonnet_30
2nd century Roman Greek writer
written in choliambic, that is, limping or imperfect iambic verse, having a spondee as the last foot, a meter originally appropriated to scurrilous verse.
Babrius
Feature of Ancient Greek prosody
word ends the fifth or fourth foot it is almost never, or only rarely, a spondee (– –). The philologist W. Sidney Allen suggested an explanation for all
Porson's_law
Poem by William Shakespeare
important role here. Thus, we have the triple emphasis produced by the final spondee of line 5, so effective after the regular iambic pentameter of all that
Sonnet_1
English poet and humorist (1799–1845)
into a Pegasus on three legs, every foot, of course, being a dactyl or a spondee." However, the uncongenial profession affected his health, which was never
Thomas_Hood
Type of poetic metre
in that its long lines invite the use of variably placed caesuras and spondees to achieve metrical variety, in place of a fixed pattern of iambs and line
Common_metre
Omission of sounds in words or phrases
where "multillet " comprises three long syllables, or one and a half spondees. Virgil's Aeneid Book I, Line 11: "impulerit. tantaene animis caelestibus
Elision
Poem by Emily Dickinson
typical three and four feet iambs. Judith Farr writes that the opening spondees makes the poem theatrical, turbulent, and stormy, appropriate for the subject
Wild_Nights_–_Wild_Nights!
What is perceived after a physiological stimulus
is told to repeat conversation being spoken at different volumes. The spondee threshold test is a related test that detects the loudness at which the
Stimulus_modality
Literary work by Horace
and has its rules and wholesome restraints. 251-274 – On the Iambic and Spondee. The Greek taste is to be followed, rather than the license of the Roman
Epistles_(Horace)
Iamb (aka iambus): short-long Trochee (aka choreus or choree): long-short Spondee: long-long Pyrrhic (aka dibrach): short-short Trisyllable: metrical foot
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
Musical traditions of ancient Greece
libations were often accompanied by a special libation melody called the spondeion, which was often accompanied by an aulos player. Music occupied an important
Music_of_ancient_Greece
Term in the study of poetic metre
as long, so that if a dactyl ( – u u ) is made catalectic, it becomes a spondee ( – – ). Ancient poetry was often performed to music, and the question
Catalexis
1819 poem by John Keats
including the first: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"; and employing spondees in which two stressed syllables are placed together at the beginnings of
To_Autumn
Rhythmic patterns in medieval European music
(iamb) Long-short-short (dactyl) Short-short-long (anapaest) Long-long (spondee) Short-short-short (tribrach) Although these six modes were recognized
Rhythmic_mode
Ancient Greek poet
hexameter and Doric, Herodas the scazon or "lame" iambic (with a dragging spondee at the end) and the old Ionic dialect with which that metre was associated
Herodas
12th-century chronicler of Polish history
formulated a hypothesis that if one found an author using cursus spondiacus (spondee?) simultaneously with cursus velox, that fact might identify Anonymus.
Gallus_Anonymus
1st-century AD Roman senator, orator and poet
language can be closely compared to Virgilian usage, especially his use of spondees. Stoicism and stoic ethical thought are significant themes in the Punica
Silius_Italicus
American poet
Fleming Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-20. "Biography Jessica Powers". Spondee.net. Archived from the original on October 3, 2000. Retrieved 2009-05-09
Jessica_Powers
Type of poetic meter based on stress
which can be either a dactyl (– u u) or a spondee (– –), the last two feet almost always being dactyl + spondee (– u u | – x) (the final syllable can be
Latin_rhythmic_hexameter
Metrical pattern in poetry
mátan apò phrontídos ákhthos khrḕ baleîn etētúmōs. – – | – u – u | – u – (spondee + lekythion) — u — u | — u — (lekythion) — u — u | — u — (lekythion) —
Lekythion
accents Disyllables ◡ ◡ pyrrhic, dibrach ◡ – iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest
Tolkien's_poetry
Ancient Greek poet
("halting iambic" as Murray calls it) or choliamb, which substitutes a spondee or trochee for the final iambus of an iambic senarius, and is an appropriate
Hipponax
British educator and scholar (1868–1952)
may be a spondee or trochee, in which case the foot preceding must be a dactyl. (2) The first foot may be inverted. (3) An initial spondee may be followed
Samuel_Ogden_Andrew
nature of the "slippery planks" in the ninth line. Strong stresses and spondees, emphasized by consistent alliteration and slant rhymes, evince the same
Root_Cellar_(poem)
Metres used in Plautus and Terence
foot in each metron, that is, the one which is usually an iamb, not a spondee, dactyl or an anapaest. "In this way what was a senarius becomes a trimeter"
Metres_of_Roman_comedy
terms as iambic pentameter, alexandrine, tetrameter, enjambment, trochee, spondee, pyrrhic and epic caesura. As a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Paul_Meier_(voice_coach)
σπονδή, σπονδάς (spondḗ, spondás), σπονδεῖος, σπονδικός spondaic, Sponde, spondee sper- hope Latin spes, sperare despair, desperado, desperate, desperation
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/S
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/S
Accented and unaccented parts of a poetic foot, respectively, in prosody
— two short syllables (dactyl: long—short—short) or one long syllable (spondee: long—long). Because Classical poetry was not based on stress, the arsis
Arsis_and_thesis
13th century musicologist
(iamb), long–short–short (dactyl), short–short–long (anapest), long–long (spondee), and short–short (pyrrhic). Notation had not yet evolved to the point
Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist)
Johannes_de_Garlandia_(music_theorist)
6th-century BC Greek lyric poet
break into the home of a virtuous woman, he sang a solemn tune with long spondees and the boys' "raging willfulness" was quelled. Suda's extraordinary account
Ibycus
Poem by William Shakespeare
waves crashing culminates at the beginning of the third line, in which a spondee, a foot with two stressed syllables, represents this climax. However, Carl
Sonnet_60
Process of investigating the form of a poem in an informed way
energy they bring to a line, are the monosyllabic foot (weak) and the spondee (STRONG STRONG). The terms for line length follow a regular pattern: a
Poetry_analysis
American writer (1768–1812)
wrote a satirical column by the name of "The Shop of Messrs. Colon and Spondee" which appeared in the Museum. In 1798 Dennie lost a considerable amount
Joseph_Dennie
Poetic metre used in Greek and Latin, especially in Roman comedy
here in front of the house?" The second line above consists mostly of spondees (– –) instead of trochees (– u), but as in most septenarii, the word accents
Trochaic_septenarius
American poet, novelist, actor
take her poetry seriously and to express herself by rule of dactyl and spondee. After graduation, for a few years, Ragsdale led the visiting, dancing
Lulah_Ragsdale
each one composed of a pyrrhic (two unaccented syllables) followed by a spondee (two stressed syllables). A double inversion of a regular iambic metre
The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description
The_Old_Cumberland_Beggar,_a_Description
Poetic metre used in Ancient Greek and Latin
has two ionic metra followed by an ithyphallic (i.e. two trochees and a spondee): – – u u | – – u u | – u – u | – – According to Victorinus, some metricians
Sotadean_metre
Poem by Wallace Stevens
the hovering emphasis on "green blooms turning," even though the long spondee adds an extra accent to the line; and this prepares for the immense satisfactionn
Sea_Surface_Full_of_Clouds
pedum regulis, didactive treatise on metrical feet, such as iambs and spondees. The Epistola is best known today for including one hundred hexametrical
Epistola_ad_Acircium
SPONDEE
SPONDEE
SPONDEE
SPONDEE
Boy/Male
Sanskrit
King. Raja is an Indian or Malay princely title; Raj means 'rule.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Delicate, Feminine
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi
Full of Life
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Roscoe.Americanized spelling of French Racicot.
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Ruler with a Spear; Blend of Geri Plus Erica
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
God Murugan
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Love; Friend
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Lord of Vishnu
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
Proud
Boy/Male
Hindu
New
SPONDEE
SPONDEE
SPONDEE
SPONDEE
SPONDEE
n.
A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
n.
A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
a.
Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
a.
Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
a.
Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot.
n.
A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
a.
Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry.
n.
A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
n.
A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
a.
Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.
n.
A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
n.
A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.