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Spondee

noun
1.
A metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables.





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"Spondee" Quotes from Famous Books



... the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee. The names are borrowed, not quite felicitously, from classical prosody. Various symbols ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum


Words linked to "Spondee" :   metrical unit, spondaic, metrical foot, foot


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