| 词汇 | spondee |
| 词源 | spondee. The Greeks often made drink-offerings called sponde (“libation”) to the gods on solemn occasions. A slow meter used in poetry read on such occasions also came to be called sponde and it was this word that gave us our word spon- dee, for a “metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables.” The spondee is often used to slow the rhythm of a line. |
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