spondaic

• But the beauty of the descriptions in Evangeline and the pathos--somewhat too drawn out--of the story made it dear to a multitude of readers who cared nothing about the technical disputes of Poe and other critics as to whether or not Longfellow's lines were sufficiently "spondaic" to truthfully represent the quantitative hexameters of Homer and Vergil In 1855 appeared Hiawatha_, Longfellow's most {485} aboriginal and "American" book. —  Brief History of English and American Literature
• While the classic tongues, especially the Greek, possess, by power of accent, several advantages for versification over our own, chiefly through greater abundance of spondaic: feet, we have other and very great advantages of sound by the modern usage of rhyme. —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
• In the kitchen Vessons, very spondaic, was singing 'The Three Jolly Huntsmen.' —  Gone to Earth
• Latin and the rarity of spondaic feet is assuredly to be supplied by art and artifice. —  The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
• (6) Prosaic lines (often spondaic); l. 34, —  The Student's Companion to Latin Authors

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