spondee

To determine where the emphasis is placed in a word, say the word out loud. To hear an example of a spondee, say the words “bus stop” out loud and notice how both syllables are stressed. Other spondee examples include “toothache,” “bookmark,” and “handshake.”

The effect of spondees in verse is often to slow the line down and to represent slow movement.

A writer might insert a spondee to create emphasis, or simply to accommodate a word whose stress pattern doesn't adhere to the predominant metrical pattern of the poem. However, the stressed-stressed pattern of spondees, when they appear in the midst of more common feet, can have a striking effect.

The Spondees, also known as CID W-1, are two-syllable words with equal stress on each syllable, which are employed to obtain thresholds for speech.

in poetry, having a rhythm of two long or strong syllables: He explained that heroic verse was originally spondaic because the founders of the nations possessed slow minds and slow tongues.

Words and phrases like "childhood" and "bus stop" are spondaic: both syllables have equal stress. Spondaic meter has been used in many famous poems, including these examples: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha," which combines spondee and trochee.

Where dactyls are patterns of one stressed and two unstressed syllables, spondee is a pattern of two stressed syllables, with no unstressed syllables between them. Try reading this line out loud: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.

Unlike its counterparts, the spondee uses two stressed syllables. (The opposite of a spondee, the pyrrhic, uses two unstressed syllables). Words and phrases like "childhood" and "bus stop" are spondaic: both syllables have equal stress.

The dactylic hexameter consists of six feet. Of these the first four may take either the form of a dactyl, i.e. a heavy syllable followed by two light syllables (HLL), or a spondee, i.e. two heavy syllables (HH).

A spondee (coming from the Latin word for "libation") is a foot made up of two stressed syllables. Its opposite, a foot made up of two unstressed syllables, is known as a "pyrrhic foot."

in poetry, having a rhythm of two long or strong syllables: He explained that heroic verse was originally spondaic because the founders of the nations possessed slow minds and slow tongues.

A dactyl is a three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which a stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables. The word “poetry” itself is a great example of a dactyl, with the stressed syllable falling on the “Po,” followed by the unstressed syllables “e” and “try”: Po-e-try.