For the three feet which usher in the first clause are spondees, the fourth is an anapaest, the next a spondee once more, then a cretic,—all stately feet.
For Dionysius’ view of the spondee and other feet see also Walz viii.
And what is most surprising of all, not one of the long feet which naturally fit into the heroic metre—whether spondee or bacchius—has been introduced into the line, except at the end.
A bacchius begins this first clause; then follows a spondee; next an anapaest, and after this another spondee; then three cretics in succession, and a spondee as the last foot.
The dactylic hexameter consists of six feet, each of which is either a dactyl or a spondee, though the sixth is always a spondee and the fifth almost always a dactyl.
A spondee is allowable in any position; the limit is four out of five, with either the fourth or fifth foot remaining iambic.
I must try for Homer's average of a spondee a line.
Spondee quoted a poem he had once written about Miss Dorothy.
Spondee had always had a soft spot in his heart for Miss Dorothy, esteeming her a highly entertaining creature.
She stood there a moment and Spondee was convinced.
But it sometimes consists of a spondee and four chorei.
S (= selectae), in which a spondee is substituted for a trochee in the cadence, e.
The choriambi are never used alone, but are usually preceded by a spondee and followed by an iambus.
We were astonished at the assertion, and Spondee asked him, "What affinity is there between that boy and Harry, that you say their merit resembles so much as you just now told us?
A spondee has, I doubt not, dropped out of the text.
As to Southey's example, Egypt is no more a spondee than precept or rescript; but the fact is, that we have in English spondees in abundance; and these spondees have tended more than any thing else to spoil our hexameters.
The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second.
In the sixth foot, moreover, the spondeeis admissible instead of the trochee.
But the greatest rhythmical variety is given to this verse by the rule which allows a spondee to be used instead of any of the dactyls; in the fifth foot, however, this rarely occurs.
The movement is what is called spondaic, a spondee being a foot of two heavy sounds.
The Spondee 'rolls round,' expresses beautifully the majesty of the sun in his course.
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.
It is so called from being compounded of a spondee (which contains 4 times) with an iambus or a trochee (which contains 3 times).
She then informed me that a spondee was a foot, but whether it was a foot of two short syllables and a long one, or two long ones and a short one, was what "bothered" her.
In this metre we observe: (1) That when a dactyl or spondee ends a word, the natural and metrical accents coincide; e.
A trimeter iambic line with a spondee in the last place, which must always be preceded by an iambus, e.
In the first, third, and fifth place a spondee may be substituted, and there are other licenses which we need not here enter upon, as the measure is not of much importance for our purposes.
A spondee may take the place of each of the first four dactyls—and sometimes, but very rarely, of the fifth.
The Hexameter line consists of, practically, five dactyls and a spondee or trochee.
In him the first foot of each line is nearly always a trochee, only rarely a spondee: the monotonous effect of a positional trochee in English, to say nothing of the difficulty, induced me to substitute a spondee more frequently.
This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondeeinto the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.
Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement.
The sixth foot may be either a spondee or a trochee, since the final syllable of a verse may be either long or short (syllaba anceps).
But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee ( ) may take the place of the dactyl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spondee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
