A metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables. An example of a spondaic word is “hog-wild.” Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” is heavily spondaic:           With swift, slow; sweet, sour; a [..]

"metrical foot consisting of two long syllables," late 14c., from Old French spondee (14c.), from Latin spondeus, from Greek spondeios (pous), the name of the meter originally used in chants [..]

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 dacty [..]

A kind of metrical foot. A spondee is a duple foot with two stressed syllables. Although it's rare for any two adjacent syllables to receive exactly the same stress, in spondees there's no o [..]

A metrical

a metrical foot consisting of a pair of stressed syllables ("Déad sét").

A double-hard-stressed phrase such as “shook foil” (Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”).

 See foot.

 a nontraditional metrical foot in which two consecutive syllables are stressed

A musical foot consisting of two long notes or syllables.

(n) a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables

This delightful little metrical foot consists of a stressed syllable, followed by—wait for it—another stressed syllable, as in DUMDUM (and no, we're not talking about the lollipops). In other wor [..]