"Spondaical" is a word in ENGLISH
Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.
Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as,
a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a
dactyl in the fifth foot.
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.
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Little Tommy's kindergarten class was on a field trip to their local police station. There they saw pictures tacked to a big bulletin board. The label clearly read, "The 10 Most Wanted."One of the youngsters pointed to a picture and asked if it really was the photo of a wanted person."Yes," said the policeman, "the detectives want him very badly."So Little Tommy asked, while tugging on the man's belt, "Um, mister, why didn't you keep them when you took their pictures?"
A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, …
Read the complete definitionA choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and …
Read the complete definitionA verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
Read the complete definitionA double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.
Read the complete definitionConsisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin …
Read the complete definitionHaving six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
Read the complete definitionA verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly …
Read the complete definitionA foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, …
Read the complete definitionBelonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been …
Read the complete definitionA poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
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