Metrical foot with two long (or accented) syllables
For other uses, see Spondee (disambiguation).
Metrical feet and accents
Disyllables
◡ ◡
pyrrhic, dibrach
◡ –
iamb
– ◡
trochee, choree
– –
spondee
Trisyllables
◡ ◡ ◡
tribrach
– ◡ ◡
dactyl
◡ – ◡
amphibrach
◡ ◡ –
anapaest, antidactylus
◡ – –
bacchius
– – ◡
antibacchius
– ◡ –
cretic, amphimacer
– – –
molossus
See main article for tetrasyllables.
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A spondee (Latin: spondeus) is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables in modern meters.[1] The word comes from the Greek σπονδή, spondḗ, 'libation'.
A spondee (Latin: spondeus) is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed...
(– u u) or a spondee (– –). The first four feet can either be dactyls, spondees, or a mix. The fifth foot can also sometimes be a spondee, but this is...
follow these rules: A foot can be made up of two long syllables (– –), a spondee; or a long and two short syllables, a dactyl (– υ υ). The first four feet...
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...
four metra, each metron being of the form | x – u – |, consisting of a spondee and an iamb, or two iambs. There usually is a break in the centre of the...
the first verse (apart from the first foot of the third line, which is a spondee): It's four in / the morning, / the end of / December I'm writing / you...
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...
ἔλαβέ σε μόρος ἐς Ἄϊδος; ἔλαβέ με κυνὸς ὀδάξ. Tennyson used pyrrhics and spondees quite frequently, for example, in In Memoriam: When the blood creeps and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
"-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...
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...
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