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spondee
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Spondee " is a piece composed by intelligent dance music (IDM) duo Matmos . It is the third track on their 2001 album A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure . The piece revolves around audio samples from a hearing test : a woman's voice recites two-syllable ...
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n. a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spondee \Spon"dee\ (sp[o^]n"d[=e]), n. [L. spondeus, Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ? a drink offering, libation, fr. ? to pour out, make a libation: cf. F. spond['e]e. So called because at libations slow, solemn melodies were used, chiefly in this meter.] (Pros.) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"metrical foot consisting of two long syllables," late 14c., from Old French spondee (14c.), from Latin spondeus , from Greek spondeios (pous) , the name of the meter originally used in chants accompanying libations, from sponde "solemn libation, a drink-offering," ...
Usage examples of spondee.
It made no use of the traditional stress-patterned metrics he knew so well, the iambs and trochees and dactyls, the spondees and anapests, out of which Furvain had always built his poems with such swiftness and ease.
Pett about the difference between picric acid and trinitrotoluene, than which a pleasanter topic for the luncheon table could hardly be selected, and the voice of Clarence Renshaw rose above all other competing noises, as he spoke of the functions of the trochaic spondee.
This procedure, resembling as it does the trope of zeugma, gives the effect of reducing diverse things to unity, eliminating particulars for generalities, just as the final two feet of the hexameter, the dactyl and the final firm spondee, cut across the grammatical and word divisions to punctuate the shifting cadences of the first four feet.
Gippius spat out a line of Pushkin to demonstrate the false spondee in iambic verse, his outworn prosodic terms failed to arouse the nascent poet in his class.
Latin, nodded his head, in cadence, at every roll which La Fontaine impressed upon his body, according to the undulations of the dactyls and spondees.