英语词汇“spondee”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

It was a metrically auspicious birth date — the spondee “ONE, TEN” resounding like slaps on a baby’s bottom, the anapest “twenty-EIGHT” hurtling toward the future. Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 87 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

She adds: “As far as meter goes I think spondees make for the best, snappiest titles: ‘White Noise.’ A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

The play, written in characteristically supple iambic pentameter, has an unforgettable music of its own, a set of rhythmic surprises sprung in the opening spondee — “Who’s there?” — and developed in a thousand different ways. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it's not strictly a spondee, but, in bagging a line all to itself, the word seems to insist on taking two full stresses: well come! Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z

"Hot sun" and "cool fire" are both spondees. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z

There's a lovely contrast between the skippety dactyl of "Merry mites" and the surprising, ceremonious spondee, "Welcome". Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z

In poetic terms, the name is a spondee, two syllables in a row that claim equal force, disrupting the lilt of ordinary speech, like a command or a shout: Shut up, no way, get out. The Enduring Appeal of Hawaii’s Preserved Fruits 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The four other feet may be either spondees or dactyls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z

One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z

This ode is a curious medley of antique metres, trochees, dactyls, and spondees, attuned to tumultuous emotion. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z

In Browning’s “Prospice,” the iambus predominates, and expresses heroic endurance and courage in meeting death; but the first foot—“Fear death”—is a spondee, and indicates the deliberative realization of the situation. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z

It proceeds upon a misapprehension, now, I hope, pretty generally rectified; I mean the objection that we cannot have hexameters, "because we have so few spondees the language." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z

"Now we can pass for a spondee," said the rector. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z

Choliambus or scazon, which is the same with the last mentioned, except that the concluding foot of the line is always a spondee. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z

To this metre Catullus imparts a peculiar lightness and grace by making the trochee, instead of the spondee as in Horace’s glyconics and pherecrateans, the first foot in the line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"

The spondee is found in solemn hymns or in any verse expressing reverence and awe. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z

There is, in fact, no such thing as a spondee in ordinary speech. The Voice and Spiritual Education

In the dactyls and the spondees he caught the rhythm of tinkling feet; and as the measures sank him into deeper sleep a monstrous beetle shot through the casement and put the candle out. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes

Pherecratian, consisting of three feet, a trochee, spondee, or iambus in the first place, followed by a dactyl and spondee. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z

A trochee in the first foot is indicated by the figure 1 in the "T" column; a spondee in the fourth foot by the figure 4 in the "S" column; and so on. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

The choriambi are never used alone, but are usually preceded by a spondee and followed by an iambus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"

Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers

The ad libitum alternation of dactyl and spondee make the lively or the grave; and the whole metrical glow is all life and action, without hitch or hindrance. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846

A spondee is a foot of two syllables, as īnfāns, an infant. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue

There can be no very general agreement among readers as to the degree of accent necessary to change a pair of syllables from an "iambus" to a "pyrrhic" or a "spondee." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

The four-syllable foot and the spondee are so uncommon that there is little use in the pupil’s knowing more than that there are such things. English: Composition and Literature

My dear Professor Blank, could you hear yourself described by these young cubs through their tobacco smoke, your learned ears, so alert for dactyl and spondee, would grow red. Chimney-Pot Papers

There are several kinds of Latin feet; here, however, we shall only notice spondees and dactyls. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue

The nimble dactyl striving to out-go, The drawling spondees pacing it below. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

“Power,” here, instead of being one long syllable—pow'r—must be sounded, not indeed as a spondee, nor yet as a trochee; but as - u u;—the first syllable is 1-1/4. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

A spondee is a foot of two equally accented syllables; as, mainspring, sea-maid. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism

Alike to the amusement and the astonishment of every body, although he had no ear for numbers, and scarcely knew a dactyl from a spondee, Daniel accepted the honor. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman

Every day sees some outre old word resurrected from its burial of rubbish, and set in the trochaics and spondees of love songs and sonnets. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

The lingring spondees, labouring to delay, The breathless dactyls with a sudden stay. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

There are two other feet which are found occasionally in English poetry, namely the spondee, which has two accented syllables, and the amphilbrach, which consists of three syllables with the accent on the middle one. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus

What a pity we lack spondees, in English, colonel. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett

The solitaire of its sphere and time in the novelty of its rhythmic triplets, it stood a wonder to the church and hierarchy accustomed to the slow spondees of the ancient chant. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

In the former the dissyllabic feet are in no sense spondees; in the latter there is an effort to fill them with genuinely long syllables. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

The following lines defy all efforts at reading in dactyls or spondees, and require an almost complete transposition of accent. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art

Some begin with a word that is neither dactyl nor spondee, some conclude with a dactyl, and in the intermediate part he sometimes deviates equally from the established custom. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper

Systems more numerous than dactyls and spondees in Classic verse, patent putters outnumbered only by howlers in Oxford responsions, bear witness to this graceless statement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20

Any other composer could not have escaped the compulsion of the final spondees, and much less the author of “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” and all the best martial song-tunes of the great war. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

Poe denied the possibility of any adequate representation of the classical hexameter in English, largely because of the impossibility of using English spondees. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Now if we think that these lines can be sung to the same musical rhythm we are very far from the truth, although both are hexameters, namely, dactyls, ending with spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

Her arms like two Iambics raised on hie, Doe with her brow bear equal majestie; Her legs like two straight spondees keep apace Slow as two scazons, but with stately grace. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2

But on trial, such material turned out to be very complex; the forms changed gradually, iambs becoming trochees and trochees changing into spondees. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.

Sometimes we find a spondee in the fifth foot. New Latin Grammar

Peace be with all! but afar be ambition to follow the Roman, Led by the German uncombed and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

The Doric steps consisted primarily of a trochee and a spondee, or time. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

There shall be six feet in each line, dactyls or spondees, and the fifth foot shall be a dactyl and the sixth a spondee or a trochee. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917

"Pheidippides" is in a measure of Mr. Browning's own, composed of dactyls and spondees, each line ending with a half foot or pause. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)

Peace be with all! but afar be ambition to follow the Roman, Led by the German, uncomb'd, and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850

Who does not know what it is to sit through a slow meal and digest in spondees? The Pleasures of Ignorance

The spondee or , which is the rhythm of prose, we already possessed; for when we walk it is in spondees, namely, in groups of two equal steps. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

His fables are written in choliambic verse; that is, imperfect iambic which has a spondee in the last foot and is fitted for the satire for which it was originally used. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3

A spondee is a foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are accented about equally. Composition-Rhetoric

It did not seem fit to us that such a one as he should trouble his head about spondees and dactyls, or care to know who signed the Magna Charta. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales

But Ephorus will not even admit that the spondee, which he condemns, is equivalent to the dactyl, which he approves of. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

For its rhythm it depended upon that of the hexameter, which consists of a line of six dactyls and spondees, the line always ending with a spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q

Three irregular feet, the pyrrhic, the spondee, the amphibrach, are occasionally found in lines, but not in entire poems, and are often considered merely as substitutes for regular feet. Composition-Rhetoric

The first kind consists of five feet, viz. a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable and two dactyles; the second of two dactyles and two trochees. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28

It is ended with a dichoreus; but the next sentence terminates with a double spondee. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

If a line ends with two spondees it is a spondaic hexameter. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

Bacon therefore was amply justified in making use of F as a long syllable to form the second half of a spondee. Bacon is Shake-Speare

Thus a Latin hexameter is formed from dactyls and spondees, differently combined; the English heroick admits of acute or grave syllables, variously disposed. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

The spondee, in a compound word, sometimes gives a favourable emphasis; but to my taste, rarely, when it is formed of a double epithet. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

Then comes a short clause; for a perfect conclusion is made up of two verses, that is to say members, and falls into spondees. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

For in their wonderful designs we continually see the curved line woven in with the straight, the circle with the square, the tempus perfectum with the spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

The paucity of spondees in single words in English and, indeed, in the modern languages in general, makes, perhaps, the greatest distinction, metrically considered, between them and the Greek and Latin. Literary Remains, Volume 2

His technical skill is very considerable; the iambic senarius becomes in his hands an extremely pleasing rhythm, though the occurrence of spondees in the second and fourth place savours of archaic usage. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

These therefore, but chiefly the latter, we must admit, instead of spondees. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

Which reminds me, why do people say that silver is the only perfect spondee in the English language? On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

The mere humanitarian bards, who try to make modern life trip to the music of trochees, dactyles, and spondees, fail miserably. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859

A spondee has, I doubt not, dropped out of the text. Literary Remains, Volume 2

Horace mentions the ponderous weight of his iambic lines, which were loaded with spondees. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

These feet, in the Latin and Greek languages, were always either dactyls, or spondees; the time of a dactyl, being only that of a spondee. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

There are two Phaleucian verses which admit a spondee in the third foot, a practice often followed by Catullus in the second foot. Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton

In English we have few if any spondees: the Arabic contains about three longs to one short; hence its gravity, stateliness and dignity. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10

It is called hexameter because each line has six feet: one of these is of two long syllables, called spondee; the other, of three syllables, one long and two short, which is called dactyl. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables, because the dactyl is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry

In modern languages, however, metre being regulated by the emphasis, or intonation of the syllables, and not by the position of the letters, spondees can scarcely exist, except in compound words, as dark-red. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.—Master, Notre-Dame De Paris

A fig for all dactyls, a fig for all spondees, A fig for all dunces and dominie grandees. The Heir of Redclyffe

Along came my poet, hurrying, hatted, haired, emitting dactyls, spondees and dactylis. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million

Anathemas have been hurled against this pest in nearly every European language, old and new, and classical scholars of bye-gone centuries have thrown their spondees and dactyls at him. The Enemies of Books

单词	spondee
例句	spondee It was a metrically auspicious birth date — the spondee “ONE, TEN” resounding like slaps on a baby’s bottom, the anapest “twenty-EIGHT” hurtling toward the future. Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 87 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z She adds: “As far as meter goes I think spondees make for the best, snappiest titles: ‘White Noise.’ A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The play, written in characteristically supple iambic pentameter, has an unforgettable music of its own, a set of rhythmic surprises sprung in the opening spondee — “Who’s there?” — and developed in a thousand different ways. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps it's not strictly a spondee, but, in bagging a line all to itself, the word seems to insist on taking two full stresses: well come! Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z "Hot sun" and "cool fire" are both spondees. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z There's a lovely contrast between the skippety dactyl of "Merry mites" and the surprising, ceremonious spondee, "Welcome". Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z In poetic terms, the name is a spondee, two syllables in a row that claim equal force, disrupting the lilt of ordinary speech, like a command or a shout: Shut up, no way, get out. The Enduring Appeal of Hawaii’s Preserved Fruits 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The four other feet may be either spondees or dactyls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z This ode is a curious medley of antique metres, trochees, dactyls, and spondees, attuned to tumultuous emotion. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z In Browning’s “Prospice,” the iambus predominates, and expresses heroic endurance and courage in meeting death; but the first foot—“Fear death”—is a spondee, and indicates the deliberative realization of the situation. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z It proceeds upon a misapprehension, now, I hope, pretty generally rectified; I mean the objection that we cannot have hexameters, "because we have so few spondees the language." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z "Now we can pass for a spondee," said the rector. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Choliambus or scazon, which is the same with the last mentioned, except that the concluding foot of the line is always a spondee. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z To this metre Catullus imparts a peculiar lightness and grace by making the trochee, instead of the spondee as in Horace’s glyconics and pherecrateans, the first foot in the line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The spondee is found in solemn hymns or in any verse expressing reverence and awe. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z There is, in fact, no such thing as a spondee in ordinary speech. The Voice and Spiritual Education In the dactyls and the spondees he caught the rhythm of tinkling feet; and as the measures sank him into deeper sleep a monstrous beetle shot through the casement and put the candle out. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes Pherecratian, consisting of three feet, a trochee, spondee, or iambus in the first place, followed by a dactyl and spondee. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z A trochee in the first foot is indicated by the figure 1 in the "T" column; a spondee in the fourth foot by the figure 4 in the "S" column; and so on. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The choriambi are never used alone, but are usually preceded by a spondee and followed by an iambus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers The ad libitum alternation of dactyl and spondee make the lively or the grave; and the whole metrical glow is all life and action, without hitch or hindrance. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 A spondee is a foot of two syllables, as īnfāns, an infant. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue There can be no very general agreement among readers as to the degree of accent necessary to change a pair of syllables from an "iambus" to a "pyrrhic" or a "spondee." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The four-syllable foot and the spondee are so uncommon that there is little use in the pupil’s knowing more than that there are such things. English: Composition and Literature In this anapestic line the meter is varied by a spondee: ⌣ ⌣ — \| — — \| ⌣ ⌣ — \| ⌣ ⌣ — “Not a drum \| was heard \| not a fun \| eral note.” Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers My dear Professor Blank, could you hear yourself described by these young cubs through their tobacco smoke, your learned ears, so alert for dactyl and spondee, would grow red. Chimney-Pot Papers There are several kinds of Latin feet; here, however, we shall only notice spondees and dactyls. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue The nimble dactyl striving to out-go, The drawling spondees pacing it below. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History “Power,” here, instead of being one long syllable—pow'r—must be sounded, not indeed as a spondee, nor yet as a trochee; but as - u u;—the first syllable is 1-1/4. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher A spondee is a foot of two equally accented syllables; as, mainspring, sea-maid. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Alike to the amusement and the astonishment of every body, although he had no ear for numbers, and scarcely knew a dactyl from a spondee, Daniel accepted the honor. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman Every day sees some outre old word resurrected from its burial of rubbish, and set in the trochaics and spondees of love songs and sonnets. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The lingring spondees, labouring to delay, The breathless dactyls with a sudden stay. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There are two other feet which are found occasionally in English poetry, namely the spondee, which has two accented syllables, and the amphilbrach, which consists of three syllables with the accent on the middle one. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus What a pity we lack spondees, in English, colonel. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett The solitaire of its sphere and time in the novelty of its rhythmic triplets, it stood a wonder to the church and hierarchy accustomed to the slow spondees of the ancient chant. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes In the former the dissyllabic feet are in no sense spondees; in the latter there is an effort to fill them with genuinely long syllables. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The following lines defy all efforts at reading in dactyls or spondees, and require an almost complete transposition of accent. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art Some begin with a word that is neither dactyl nor spondee, some conclude with a dactyl, and in the intermediate part he sometimes deviates equally from the established custom. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Systems more numerous than dactyls and spondees in Classic verse, patent putters outnumbered only by howlers in Oxford responsions, bear witness to this graceless statement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Any other composer could not have escaped the compulsion of the final spondees, and much less the author of “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” and all the best martial song-tunes of the great war. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Poe denied the possibility of any adequate representation of the classical hexameter in English, largely because of the impossibility of using English spondees. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Now if we think that these lines can be sung to the same musical rhythm we are very far from the truth, although both are hexameters, namely, dactyls, ending with spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Her arms like two Iambics raised on hie, Doe with her brow bear equal majestie; Her legs like two straight spondees keep apace Slow as two scazons, but with stately grace. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 But on trial, such material turned out to be very complex; the forms changed gradually, iambs becoming trochees and trochees changing into spondees. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Sometimes we find a spondee in the fifth foot. New Latin Grammar Peace be with all! but afar be ambition to follow the Roman, Led by the German uncombed and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The Doric steps consisted primarily of a trochee and a spondee, or time. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University There shall be six feet in each line, dactyls or spondees, and the fifth foot shall be a dactyl and the sixth a spondee or a trochee. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 "Pheidippides" is in a measure of Mr. Browning's own, composed of dactyls and spondees, each line ending with a half foot or pause. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Peace be with all! but afar be ambition to follow the Roman, Led by the German, uncomb'd, and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Who does not know what it is to sit through a slow meal and digest in spondees? The Pleasures of Ignorance The spondee or , which is the rhythm of prose, we already possessed; for when we walk it is in spondees, namely, in groups of two equal steps. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University His fables are written in choliambic verse; that is, imperfect iambic which has a spondee in the last foot and is fitted for the satire for which it was originally used. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 A spondee is a foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are accented about equally. Composition-Rhetoric It did not seem fit to us that such a one as he should trouble his head about spondees and dactyls, or care to know who signed the Magna Charta. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales But Ephorus will not even admit that the spondee, which he condemns, is equivalent to the dactyl, which he approves of. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 For its rhythm it depended upon that of the hexameter, which consists of a line of six dactyls and spondees, the line always ending with a spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q Three irregular feet, the pyrrhic, the spondee, the amphibrach, are occasionally found in lines, but not in entire poems, and are often considered merely as substitutes for regular feet. Composition-Rhetoric The first kind consists of five feet, viz. a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable and two dactyles; the second of two dactyles and two trochees. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It is ended with a dichoreus; but the next sentence terminates with a double spondee. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 If a line ends with two spondees it is a spondaic hexameter. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Bacon therefore was amply justified in making use of F as a long syllable to form the second half of a spondee. Bacon is Shake-Speare Thus a Latin hexameter is formed from dactyls and spondees, differently combined; the English heroick admits of acute or grave syllables, variously disposed. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The spondee, in a compound word, sometimes gives a favourable emphasis; but to my taste, rarely, when it is formed of a double epithet. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Then comes a short clause; for a perfect conclusion is made up of two verses, that is to say members, and falls into spondees. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 For in their wonderful designs we continually see the curved line woven in with the straight, the circle with the square, the tempus perfectum with the spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The paucity of spondees in single words in English and, indeed, in the modern languages in general, makes, perhaps, the greatest distinction, metrically considered, between them and the Greek and Latin. Literary Remains, Volume 2 His technical skill is very considerable; the iambic senarius becomes in his hands an extremely pleasing rhythm, though the occurrence of spondees in the second and fourth place savours of archaic usage. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius These therefore, but chiefly the latter, we must admit, instead of spondees. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Which reminds me, why do people say that silver is the only perfect spondee in the English language? On Nothing and Kindred Subjects The mere humanitarian bards, who try to make modern life trip to the music of trochees, dactyles, and spondees, fail miserably. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 A spondee has, I doubt not, dropped out of the text. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Horace mentions the ponderous weight of his iambic lines, which were loaded with spondees. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius These feet, in the Latin and Greek languages, were always either dactyls, or spondees; the time of a dactyl, being only that of a spondee. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey There are two Phaleucian verses which admit a spondee in the third foot, a practice often followed by Catullus in the second foot. Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton In English we have few if any spondees: the Arabic contains about three longs to one short; hence its gravity, stateliness and dignity. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 It is called hexameter because each line has six feet: one of these is of two long syllables, called spondee; the other, of three syllables, one long and two short, which is called dactyl. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables, because the dactyl is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry In modern languages, however, metre being regulated by the emphasis, or intonation of the syllables, and not by the position of the letters, spondees can scarcely exist, except in compound words, as dark-red. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.—Master, Notre-Dame De Paris A fig for all dactyls, a fig for all spondees, A fig for all dunces and dominie grandees. The Heir of Redclyffe Along came my poet, hurrying, hatted, haired, emitting dactyls, spondees and dactylis. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million Anathemas have been hurled against this pest in nearly every European language, old and new, and classical scholars of bye-gone centuries have thrown their spondees and dactyls at him. The Enemies of Books
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