44 examples of spondee in sentences

"No man is tied in Modern Poesy, to observe any farther Rules in the Feet of his Verse, but that they be dissyllables (whether Spondee, Trochee, or Iambic, it matters not); only he is obliged to Rhyme.

Or where they make the end of an iambic in the first, and the beginning of a spondee in the second foot, as Th[)e]

[Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse^, prose run mad; macaronics^; macaronic verse^, leonine verse; runes. canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe^. verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation &c (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^, antispast^, blank verse, ictus.

To my sense, the play has somewhat the air of a hexameter line with the spondee cut off.

But Ephorus will not even admit that the spondee, which he condemns, is equivalent to the dactyl, which he approves of.

Even the spondee is not utterly to be repudiated; although, because it consists of two long syllables, it appears somewhat dull and slow; still it has a certain steady march not devoid of dignity; but much more is it valuable in short clauses and periods; for then it makes up for the fewness of the feet by its dignified slowness.

Even the iambic, which consists of one short and one long syllable; or that foot which is equal to the choreus, having three short syllables, being therefore equal in time though not in the number of syllables; or the dactyl, which consists of one long and two short syllables, if it is next to the last foot, joins that foot very trippingly, if it is a choreus or a spondee.

" It is ended with a dichoreus; but the next sentence terminates with a double spondee.

We speak of quantity here as of a mass, not of the minutiae; for the essential components of a part may often be equal quantities, (as in a piece of architecture, of armour, &c.,) which are analogous to poetic feet, for instance, a spondee.

Of the following sixteen lines, nine are pure anapestic tetrameters; one may be reckoned dactylic, but it may quite as well be said to have a trochee, an iambus, and two anapests or two amphimacs; one is a spondee and three anapests; and the rest may be scanned as amphibrachics ending with an iambus, but are more properly anapestics commencing with an iambus.

According to the Prosodies, the first four of these may be either dactyls or spondees; the fifth is always, or nearly always, a dactyl; and the sixth, or last, is always a spondee: as, "L=ud~er~e |

The Sapphic verse, according to Fabricius, Smetius, and all good authorities, has eleven syllables, making "five feetthe first a trochee, the second a spondee, the third a dactyl, and the fourth and fifth trochees."

The Sapphic stanza, or what is sometimes so called, consists of three Sapphic lines and an Adonian, or Adonic,this last being a short line composed of "a dactyl and a spondee.

" To arrange eleven syllables in a line, and have half or more of them to form trochees, is no difficult matter; but, to find rhythm in the succession of "a trochee, a spondee, and a dactyl," as we read words, seems hardly practicable.

= = a trochee, a moloss, a pyrrhic, a trochee, and [a] spondee; and sometimes, occasionally, a trochee, instead of a spondee, at the end.

= = a trochee, a moloss, a pyrrhic, a trochee, and [a] spondee; and sometimes, occasionally, a trochee, instead of a spondee, at the end.

But as our language is not favourable to the use of the spondee and moloss, the moloss is seldom or never used in our English Sapphics; but, instead of which, some other trissyllable foot is used.

Also, instead of the spondee, a trochee is commonly used; and sometimes a trochee instead of the pyrrhic, in the third place.

What is a Spondee?

"The Spondee 'rolls round,' expresses beautifully the majesty of the sun in his course.

Spondee, defined.

The living, or spitting, image (left) and a dead ringer; The lapidary In a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin; An upstart rising from a clump of Johnny-come-lately; The <pb id='230.png' /> small rodent (right) is a spouse; A trochee (left) encountering a spondee; Three fresh-water creatures.

An upstart rising from a clump of Johnny-come latelythe small rodent (right) is a spouse; a trochee (left) encountering a spondee; the qualm, the glib, the moot.

The living, or spitting, image (left) and a dead ringer; The lapidary In a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin; An upstart rising from a clump of Johnny-come-lately; The <pb id='230.png' /> small rodent (right) is a spouse; A trochee (left) encountering a spondee; Three fresh-water creatures.

He disliked the texture of those stiff verses, in their official garb, their abject reverence for grammar, their mechanical division by imperturbable caesuras, always plugged at the end in the same way by the impact of a dactyl against a spondee.

44 examples of  spondee  in sentences