spondee in English

noun
1
a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees , dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.

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1. Variations on the traditional Alcaic include the use of a long initial syllable and of a spondee (— …

2. What does Alcaic-verse mean? A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus; consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls

3. The characteristic Anacreontic lines consist of a pyrrhic foot, two trochees, and a spondee, for which the nearest regular English counterpart would be trochaic tetrameter.)

4. 86, 1294-1309 (1989)], the validity and manageability of a test battery comprising Auditive (sensitivity, frequency resolution, and temporal resolution), cognitive (memory performance, processing speed, and intellectual abilities), and speech perception tests (at the phoneme, spondee, and sentence level) were investigated.