Entertainment / Literature / Spondee: In scansion, a spondee is a metrical foot consisting of two successive strong beats. The spondee typically is 'slower' and 'heavier' to read than an iamb or a dactyl. Some words and phrases in English naturally form spondees when they alone constitute a poetic foot. Examples of such spondees include football, Mayday, shortcake, plop-plop, fizz-fizz, dumbbell, drop-dead, goof-off, race track, bathrobe, breakdown, dead man, black hole, and love song. See meter for extended discussion, or click here to download a PDF handout that contrasts spondees with other types of poetic feet.
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Asclepiad: A classical metrical line made up of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and one iamb or spondee, i.e., / ' ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ~ ' / (named after the greek poet asclepiades, ca. 290 b.c.). Example MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Pherecratean: A classical greek and latin metrical pattern consisting of an iamb or a trochee, a dactyl, and a trochee or a spondee. MORE