spondee

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. While this was going on, behind the confiture-basins, Fouquet related the event of the day to his son-in-law, M.

Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.--Master, I must relate to you the history of the Barbeau mansion.

Written in blank verse and mostly in iambic pentameter, though frequently flourished with spondees and trochees, the poem acknowledges the passage of time with more than a touch of sadness, tempered, however, with appreciation.

However, Cupid, the protagonist and anti-hero, steals one foot from every second line of Ovid's epic, turning it into an elegiac couplet with six rhythmical units (spondees and dactyls) and one pentameter with a caesura for a strong rhythmical break.

The other part of Zimmer's success, though, comes from metrical lessons he learned from his two alliterative "masters." Even though he stopped producing poetry, Zimmer's prose nonetheless incorporates such techniques as alliteration, poetic compounds, paratactic compression, the clearing of "extraneous" grammatical matter, and metrical patterns that include a high proportion of spondees and trochees (in imitation of Old English A-type verses).

hurriedly, sometimes (as in the spondees of "[he] rebuffed the big

Audiometric configuration and prediction of threshold for spondees. J Speech Hear Res.

6 and 14), and some significant spondees or molossuses (l.

The poem, selected according to the commentator "because of Morriseau-Leroy's exploration of colonial legacies, neocolonial or postcolonial challenges, and general commitment to issues of social justice" grapples with issues of implied address, considerably more flexible pronouns than English, and a Creole-language meter that begins in iamb and devolves into "a heterogeneous (and wild) company of anapests, trochees, iambs, and spondees." Even the first three lines of the brief, nine-line poem illustrate that translation is far more complex an art than a simple mathematical process of replacing each word in Creole with its counterpart in English; the trot provided, while fascinating, is clearly lacking as a poem in English.

As the ego of the speaker rises, challenging accepted belief, so too, metrically, the lines of the second stanza have more tension, such as spondees for emphasis, as when the speaker describes the child's gaze "Fixed full, and steady." Her "childish honesty" is the next step for this "qualified" speaker as she looks closely and directly at accepted wisdom, questioning what she has been taught.

Effects of alcohol on speech: Acoustic analysis of spondees. Research on Speech Perception, 16, 263-291.

Even when I was a boy at school a lot of time was spent studying dactyls, spondees iambs, meter, scansion, caesura and enjambement in more language than English.