"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.
The last time I checked, I wasn’t the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a flip-flop that had somehow ended up in the sink.
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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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