The repeated use of the heavily spondaic line came to be frowned upon, as well as the use of a high proportion of spondees in both of the first two feet.
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Arbour argues that this sensation of waves crashing culminates at the beginning of the third line, in which a spondee, a foot with two stressed syllables, represents this climax.
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However, because of the strong pause at the end of the line ( which prevents elision and correption between lines in the dactylic hexameter ), it is traditionally regarded as a spondee.
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In the second and fourth lines he uses strongly-stressed offbeats ( which can be interpreted as spondees ) in the third foot to slow down the rhythm as he lists monosyllabic verbs.
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:According to the Italian WP is a metrical foot in poetry, consisting of a dactyl and a spondee .-- talk ) 18 : 48, 30 July 2009 ( UTC)
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That is, it has two dactyls ( for which spondees can be substituted ), following by a longum, followed by two dactyls ( which must remain dactyls ), followed by a longum.
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His " Voicing Shakespeare " ebook addresses the linguistic challenges of Shakespearean language while explaining such terms as iambic pentameter, alexandrine, tetrameter, enjambment, trochee, spondee, pyrrhic and epic caesura.
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The fourteener also gives the poet greater flexibility, in that its long lines invite the use of variably placed caesuras and spondees to achieve metrical variety, in place of a fixed pattern of iambs and line breaks.
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For example, is each of the following lines from the chorus of " Nymphetamine " a tribrach followed by a primus paeon followed by a spondee, or a quartus paeon followed by a dibrach followed by a bacchius?
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She had typed out almost all his poems and submitted them, in this collection, to a competition for a first book of poems being run by the Poetry Centre of the iamb in favour of bludgeoning trochees and spondees.
