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n. A metrical foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables.

n. A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.

n. A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word lēgēs.

n. In ancient prosody, a foot consisting of two long times or syllables, one of which constitutes the thesis and the other the arsis: it is accordingly tetrasemic and isorrhythmic. The spondee is principally used as a substitute for a dactyl or an anapest. In the former case it is a dactylic spondee ( for ), in the latter an anapestic spondee ( for ). An irrational spondee represents a trisemic foot, trochee, or iambus ( for , or for ). It is found in the even places of trochaic lines and in the odd places of iambic lines, also in logaœdic verses, especially as representing the initial trochee (“basis”). A foot consisting of two spondees is called a dispondee.

n. a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables

"It's in a beat called iambic trimeter: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM, which keeps it light-hearted, but generally when Kunitz uses the word "God" he does so in what's called a spondee, with two strong syllables in succession."

metrical unit    foot    metrical foot   

double spondee   

spondaic   

iamb    dactyl    trochee    apneic    pure-tone    'grave    a-gallon    concern