Which would make it a spondee and an iamb, I guess. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHOIRS/QUIRES.] Reference
Most years from 1300 to 1999 started with more of a spondee. From Wordnik.com. [On tens, teens, or whatever] Reference
By contrast the suggested rewrite begins with a spondee, kapow!. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: LOVE—AND THE PHILOSOPHER.] Reference
The very conception of the spondee seems for some reason to irritate Nabokov. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov] Reference
It is ended with a dichoreus; but the next sentence terminates with a double spondee. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
I pronounce it as a heavy spondee and a half, which tolls appropriately, but leaves you a syllable short. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHOIRS/QUIRES.] Reference
The sixth foot may be either a spondee or a trochee, since the final syllable of a verse may be either long or short. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
But Ephorus will not even admit that the spondee, which he condemns, is equivalent to the dactyl, which he approves of. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917] Reference
This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
The first two quatrains have a somber tone, a heaviness emphasized by the repeating phrase “if we must die,” with its sonorous spondee. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Finch reads Claude McKay] Reference
A spondee has, I doubt not, dropped out of the text. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference
Sorrow is ever by the side of joy, the spondee beside the dactyl. From Wordnik.com. [I. The Little Shoe. Book XI] Reference
Wot, no distinction between meiosis and litotes, or iambus and spondee?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3] Reference
3 Paul Fussell hears the punned spondee of slow time (41), to which I add and. From Wordnik.com. [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference
With Statius, as with Martial, the hendecasyllable always begins with a spondee. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
"It is a spondee, and I will maintain it," interrupted a voice on his left hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
Salver is a perfectly good spondee; so is North-Cape; so is great-coat; so is High-Mass; so is. From Wordnik.com. [On Nothing and Kindred Subjects] Reference
Mr. Fabian kneeled like a dactyle: Mr. Jeremiah kneeled like a spondee, or rather like a molossus. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
Latin and Greek languages, were always either dactyls, or spondees; the time of a dactyl, being only that of a spondee. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
There's a lovely contrast between the skippety dactyl of "Merry mites" and the surprising, ceremonious spondee, "Welcome". From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The spondee, in a compound word, sometimes gives a favourable emphasis; but to my taste, rarely, when it is formed of a double epithet. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
Come back when you've fixed that godawful spondee in the third verse. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Session With My Poetry Coach] Reference
A line of six dactyls and spondees, the line always ending with a spondee. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
‘trochæus’ and ‘spondæus’ (Holland) ‘trochee’ and ‘spondee’; and. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
The word came out as a spondee — cur-lee. From Wordnik.com. [The Apparition] Reference
It invariably opens with a spondee. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
spondee on spondee, iamb on choriamb. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke] Reference
Sometimes we find a spondee in the fifth foot. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
But Ruden finds many uses for that final spondee. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
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