Noun:

(கவிதை வகையில்) இரு நெடில் அசைச்சீர் (அ) ஈரெழுத்து அசைச் சீர்,

spondee's Usage Examples:

On the other hand, the Alexandrians admitted a spondee in the fifth foot, especially when the verse ends with a quadrisyllable.

S( selectae), in which a spondee is substituted for a trochee in the cadence, e.

"It was the tendency of these writers to use dactyls in preference to spondees with a view to lightness and rapidity.

Admitted soon after into the counting-house of a friend of his family, he "turned his stool into a Pegasus on three legs, every foot, of course, being a dactyl or a spondee"; but the uncongenial profession affected his health, which was never strong, and he was transferred to the care of his father's relations at Dundee.

Synonyms:

metrical foot, foot, metrical unit,

Antonyms:

ride, subtract, head,