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A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.

A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

An Adonic verse. Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee.

b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

horiambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. -- n. (Pros.)

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he…

A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.

sisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.

Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.