Spondee

A spondee is a metrical unit of a poetic foot in poetry which is made up of two stressed (accented) syllables.^[1] Lines of verse that are predominantly made up of spondees are referred to as spondaic. For instance, a line consisting of five sets of spondees would be considered to be in spondaic pentameter.

Some examples of spondaic words are:

• Football
• Dumbbell
• Childhood
• Shortcake^[2]

References[edit]

1. ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spondee
2. ↑ http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Examples of iambs.pdf