Definition of Spondaic. Meaning of Spondaic. Synonyms of Spondaic

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Definition of Spondaic

Spondaic
Spondaic Spon*da"ic, Spondaical Spon*da"ic*al, a. [L. spondaicus, spondiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sponda["i]que.] 1. Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees. 2. 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.

Meaning of Spondaic from wikipedia

- spondḗ, 'libation'. Sometimes libations were accompanied by hymns in spondaic rhythm, as in the following hymn by the Gr**** poet Terpander (7th century...
- boat on a river with [...] (The Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds") Spondaic tetrameter: Long sounds move slow Pyrrhic tetrameter (with spondees ["white...
- However, because Latin is much richer in long syllables than Gr****, spondaic feet are more common in Latin hexameter: 91 . In both Gr**** and Latin hexameter...
- rhyming scheme, using two quatrains of rhymed iambic pentameter with several spondaic substitutions. These make the poem's reading experience seem close to a...
- the first one long or stressed and the other two short or unstressed. Spondaic – two syllables, with two successive long or stressed syllables. Some forms...
- Mastelotto. The Window (1999) Scriptless Verse (2002) Sinuosity (2005) Spondaic Oblation (2007) NUDITYSUTRA (2014) Chadwick, Alex (January 4, 2005). "Tabla...
- and mixing 2011 Lesser Key Lesser Key Tracking and mixingAloke Dutta Spondaic Oblation Recording 2011 Crone Endless Midnight Mixing 2011 Blood, Sweat...
- meter of the poem contains examples of amphibrachic, pyrrhicretic, and spondaic feet. He argues that the complexity of Yeats's verse follows patterns of...
- given the names trochee, iamb, dactyl, anapest, spondaic and tribrach, although trochee, dactyl and spondaic were much more common. It is evident how influential...
- 2; p. 31. Radford, R. S. (1920). "The Juvenile Works of Ovid and the Spondaic Period of His Metrical Art". Transactions and Proceedings of the American...