spondees 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.

Use "spondees" in a sentence

1. Amphibrachic verse usually contains only Amphibrachs and spondees

2. The other feet are: trochees, Anapests, dactyls, and spondees

3. A "dactylic" line may feature dactyls, Anapests, or spondees, because these are all equal (L + s + s)

4. ‘Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of Anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.’

5. ‘Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of Anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.’ More example sentences ‘They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.’

6. Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or Anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8)

7. Parodos: Anapests or spondees Some scholars refer to the poetry and choral songs delivered by the chorus (or, as sometimes happens, the chorus in dialogue with individual characters in the drama delivering their lines in choral meters), the sections of a given drama, generally as cantica , from Latin, but parodos is the Ancient Greek term for