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Spondee
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spondee
Prosody a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables (– –)
Spondee 

(1) In classical versification, a foot consisting of two long syllables (— —).

(2) In syllabotonic versification, a trochaic or iambic foot with an additional stress (ن ن). This type of spondee usually occurs at the beginning of an iambic line or hemistich; an example is A. S. Pushkin’s Shvéd, rússkii kolet, rubit, rezhet (”The Swede, the Russian, thrusts, slashes, cuts”).
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The meter of the poem breaks twice only and in only two significant places: "Strong, silent, purposeful beyond his kind," where we get the ten syllables scan not as iambic but rather as spondaic for emphasis.
Dunbar, the originator by Braxton, Joanne M. / African American Review
On the other hand, there is no real comment on aspects of versification, such as the unusual spondaic fifth foot in Elegy 1.
Elegiarum libri tres by Ford, Philip / Renaissance Quarterly
The slight alteration in the metre's pattern of stresses as the spondaic refrain 'Be still' is repeated--and a significant metrical alteration also occurs in the later poem--suggests another heart rhythm overlaid and intermeshed with the speaker's.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge and the Flight to Lyric by Chapman, Alison / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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