Spondee

In other words the two feet correspond to the schemes U_U-U_ and U-U-U -, where a Spondee can take the place of the Anapaest after or before the Iambus respectively.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Basít both lines of each couplet end with an Anapaest and every second line of the other subdivision terminates in a Spondee.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Spondee, who is a critic, is seldom out of this fine man's company.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

I know several of sense who can be diverted with this couple; but I see no curiosity in the thing, except it be, that Spondee is dull, and seems dull; but

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

A Spondee; as, The pāle mōōn: a Pyrrhic; as, ŏn thĕ tall tree: an Amphibrach; as, Dēlightfūl: a Tribrach; as,

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

It must be owned also, that Dactyle has almost vigour enough to be a coxcomb; but Spondee, by the lowness of his constitution, is only a blockhead.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Anapaest, Spondee, Tribrach, Proceleusmatic, are freely admitted in any foot except the last.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

A suspicion tinkled in the breast of Spondee, in those days

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

She stood there a moment and Spondee was convinced.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

How long ago it seems, that spring noonshine when two young men (we will call them Dactyl and Spondee) set off to plunder the golden bag of Time.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923