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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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Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
The abbe, who was quite innocent of Latin, nodded his head, in cadence, at every roll which La Fontaine impressed upon his body, according to the undulations of the dactyls and spondees.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
 
 
 
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