In other examples it has an iambic or spondaic rhythm at the beginning and end, with an anapaestic part in the middle, as in The Seaboard (ib.
The main difficulty in imitating this metre in English is caused by the large number of monosyllabic words in the English language, and especially by its lack of words with a spondaic measurement.
In our language the groupings of the consonants furnish a great number of spondaic feet, and give the language, especially its more ancient forms, as in the verse of Milton and the prose of Lord Bacon, a grand and solemn character.
We must search for spondaic words, which, in English, are rare indeed.
Persius has onespondaic verse, Valerius Flaccus one, Claudian five, Silius Italicus six, Statius seven.
Spondaic verses are comparatively rare in Ennius and Lucretius, but become more frequent in Catullus.
The spondaic ending which made the line linger, usually over some word of emotional content, (l.
Hephaestion has preserved a spondaic verse of Terpander which illustrates this rhythm: #spendomen tais Mnamas paisin Mosais kai toi Mosarchoi Latous huiei.
When he was gone to Union one day, a low-down pair of white men come, wid false faces, to de house and ask where Dick Bell was.
Parr Shoals Power come in wid 'lectric power drills and I was cut down to eighty cents a day.
He is the mostspondaic poet[621] of his age, and the spondaic rhythm is not alleviated by artistic variety of pause or judicious use of elision.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spondaic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
