spondaic hexameter. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
For this, I say the line is almost entirely spondaic. From Wordnik.com. [Patrick Rosal reads Robert Hayden] Reference
In the series of dactylic lines 17-22, Catullus no doubt intended to convey the idea of rapidity, as, in the spondaic line immediately following, of labour. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Consideration of the most common of those variations, the spondaic (two stressed) and the pyrrhic (two unstressed), which are often found together forming what some have called the ionic foot, completes the chapter walking us into consideration of the line. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
It's the doirict riprisiuteetive of the Homiric loine, fust, in the number of fate; secindly, in the saysural pause; thirdly, in the capaceetee for a dactylic an 'spondaic inding, an' fowerthly, in the shuperabundince of sonorous ipithits and rowling syllabeefeeceetions. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Should the character of the spondaic tread suddenly change, should the footsteps become rapid, eager, and broken, we look upon the term of meditation and doubt as over, the resolve as definitely fixed, and the unknown as restlessly longing for the hour of its fulfilment. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
If you read aloud the lines containing this word at the beginnings of the first two quatrains, you will hear something between resigned bitterness and sad determination conveyed by the spondaic stress on the first “must,” and a firmer, mounting determination in the second “must.”. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Finch reads Claude McKay] Reference
As he utters the last word all rise together, the old women with closed eyes, heads on one side and hands crossed over their breasts, and he begins to "line out," dividing the words rhythmically into spondaic measure, with the accent strongly on every second syllable and the falling inflection invariably on the last uttered. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
This verse will scan as a spondaic hexameter as under. From Wordnik.com. [Bacon is Shake-Speare] Reference
If a line ends with two spondees it is a spondaic hexameter. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
Latin and the rarity of spondaic feet is assuredly to be supplied by art and artifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
The result so far attained has been unsatisfactory, for the rhythms are all given as spondaic. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
The spondaic line, rarely used by Ovid, almost discarded by Lucan, but which reappears in Statius, is sparingly employed by Valerius. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
But in both cases I preferred to lock up by the massy spondaic variety; yet never forgetting to premise a dancing dactyle -- 'many a' -- and 'pinion of.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
And how massily is the whole locked up into the peace of heaven, as the aerial arch of a viaduct is locked up into tranquil stability by its key-stone, through the deep spondaic close. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Up started the 'dactyle;' up started the 'spondee;' out flew their swords; curses, dactylic and spondaic, began to roll; and the gemini of the university of X, side by side, strode after the Junonicide, who proved to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
These epigrams are in poetry of all kinds of rhythm, from the plainest spondaic to the most difficult anapestic, and afforded choice preliminary reading to the audience -- the lighter and appetizing soup to the substantial courses to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Women's Rights] Reference
At this last spondaic response from Marmaduke, he lifted his eyes and eyebrows, -- not his head, -- and raised himself slightly with his two hands pressing on the chair arms; the keen glance and the half-movement were impulsively toward his friend. From Wordnik.com. [Real Folks] Reference
While the classic tongues, especially the Greek, possess, by power of accent, several advantages for versification over our own, chiefly through greater abundance of spondaic: feet, we have other and very great advantages of sound by the modern usage of rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference
But -- as will, I think, appear later and conclusively -- the line is really of six feet, and is not iambic, trochaic, anapaestic, the spurious spondaic that some writers have tried to manufacture for English verse, or anything else recognized in Coleridge's immortal stanza, or in text-books. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
Such a rhyme-arrangement as that above set forth is probably impossible in English; even now it will be observed that Mr Swinburne, the greatest master of double and treble rhymes that we have ever had, rarely succeeds in giving even the former with a full spondaic effect of vowel such as is easy in. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
It did not need the free random movement of the majority of the tales, where the lines may be anything from one foot to six, from spondaic to dactylic: in some of them he tied himself down to the most rigid and inflexible metrical forms, and moved as lightly and freely in those fetters as if they were non-existent. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
A language to which all variations and combinations of anapæstic, iambic, or trochaic metre are as natural and pliable as all dactylic and spondaic forms of verse are unnatural and abhorrent. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Song] Reference
Even the names had a spondaic bluntness, a fearsome Prod foursquareness. "). From Wordnik.com. [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference
Winter Stars, "conveyed in a heavily spondaic last stanza that relents suddenly into heartbreakingly delicate iambs in the concluding line. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
(Tetrapod: spondaic: catalect.). From Wordnik.com. [Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets] Reference
No English poem is entirely spondaic. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
And, while with their spondaic prodigious mouths. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
(6) Prosaic lines (often spondaic); l. 34. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
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