spondee

• The spondee, in a compound word, sometimes gives a favourable emphasis; but to my taste, rarely, when it is formed of a double epithet. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• Mr. Fabian kneeled like a dactyle: Mr. Jeremiah kneeled like a spondee, or rather like a molossus. —  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
• Some begin with a word that is neither dactyl nor spondee, some conclude with a dactyl, and in the intermediate part he sometimes deviates equally from the established custom. —  The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper
• But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee ( ) may take the place of the dactyl. —  New Latin Grammar
• The sixth foot may be either a spondee or a trochee, since the final syllable of a verse may be either long or short (syllaba anceps). —  New Latin Grammar

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