spondee
Two stressed syllables
A spondee is a metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables.
In English verse, pure spondees are rare since one syllable usually dominates, but words like heartbreak or football approximate the pattern.
Poets use spondaic substitution to slow a line's rhythm or add weight: The long day wanes.
Metered poetic passage
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
- lineContinuous mark or queue
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
ode · epic · elegy · meter · rhyme · poetry · lyric · blank verse
Finger, toe, or verse foot
- trocheeStressed-then-unstressed foot
- iambTwo-syllable metrical foot
- anapestTrisyllabic metrical foot
- footLeg's lowest part
metrical · prosody · scansion · versification · pentameter · hexameter · tetrameter · trimeter
verse
Metered poetic passage
sonnet · ode · epic · elegy · meter · rhyme · poetry · lyric · blank verse · sprung rhythm
dactyl
Finger, toe, or verse foot
foot · metrical · prosody · scansion · versification · pentameter · hexameter · tetrameter · trimeter · dimeter
Homer
Ancient Greek epic composer
Aeneid · dactylic · hexameter · epic · Greek · Latin · ancient · recitation · antiquity · Horace
weight
Measure of heaviness
slowness · heaviness · pause · dignity · finality · grandeur · force · impact · intensity · deliberate
- poetry termspoetry, rhyme, verse, rhythm, meter
- poetic devicesalliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, simile
- poeticsrhyme, versification, poetic form, stanza, meter
- rhythm termsrhythm, beat, tempo, meter, cadence
- classical prosodydactyl, trochee, iamb, anapest, hexameter
- Latin versehexameter, pentameter, dactyl, dactyls, caesura