10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPONDAIC»
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1
The Complete Poetry of Catullus
Of Catullus' hendecasyllabic poems, some have lines beginning only with
spondees; some have one or two non-spondaic beginnings; still others have
many. The exclusively spondaic openings are concentrated in the poems earlier
in the ...
Gaius Valerius Catullus, David Mulroy, 2002
2
A Commentary on Virgil: Aeneid VIII
57 et recto: in the Aeneid the fourth foot is predominantly spondaic (there are only
2,873 dactylic fourth feet to 6,940 spondaic according to Winbolt 115), and is said
to be so in all Latin hexameter poets (although in the Metamorphoses dactylic ...
3
Essays on the Mahābhārata
Spondaic words are fairly common in Sanskrit. More than half the twosyllabled
feminines of the —a declension are spondaic in the singular nominative,
accusative. vocative, and in the dual and plural nominative and accusative.
Several of ...
In 50 B.C. Cicero begins a letter to Atticus with a playful reference to a mannerism
of the New Poets, the spondaic hexameter. Brundisium uenimus VII Kal. Dec. usi
tua felicitate nauigandi; ita belle nobis 'flauit ab Epiro lemssimus Onchesmites ...
Spondaic meter might occur on occasion, in a particular line, but it would not
work as the basis for a poem, since minor words (such as articles, conjunctions,
and most prepositions) will be unstressed, and polysyllabic words will usually
contain ...
6
The Handbook of Pediatric Audiology
Staggered Spondaic Word Test The Staggered Spondaic Word (SSW) test
involves the dichotic presentation of familiar spondees that are partially
overlapped to deliver both noncompeting and competing syllables to each ear (
Katz 1962).
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Dissertationes Inaugurales Batavae
most frequently in the ist and 4th feet, and that because in the 2nd and 3rd feet
clash and masculine caesuras withstand spondaic words which occupy a single
foot with harmony; they are "entirely excluded from the second and third feet" ...
8
Tragedy and Comedy from Dante to Pseudo-Dante
That is, Dante surely did not give preference to the enclitic and spondaic forms
over other kinds of endings that he considered equally nonrhythmical. I will not
venture to say if the increase in any of the cases I give in my tables in Appendix 2
is ...
9
Essentials of Audiology
Stanley A. Gelfand. 71 68 67 62 6] 58 .54 54 46 71 + 1.8 = 72.8 -i 67 + 1.2 = 68.2
-> 61 + 1.8 = 62.1 72.8 + 1.2 = 74.0 — , 54 + 3.0 = 57.0- 57.0 + 0.35 = 57.35 74.0
+ 0.35 = 74.35 74.35 + 0 = 74.35 ♢ Appendix B ♢ Appendix C Spondaic Word ...
10
The Journal of Philology
Spondaic endings. Of the 50 cases of this rhythm in the Iliad, 5, and of the 20 in
the Odyssey, 4, occur in lines with spondaic ending (eg. 0-. 35, pere¢a§vei avna-
riipeo-a-w). The proportions accordingly are ten and twenty per cent. respectively
.
William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPONDAIC»
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Poem of the week: All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis
... metres, in that (to me, anyway) there's no way to herd all its syllables into iambic, spondaic or anapestic feet ('ter' has to be whispered or swallowed). «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Poetic Sickness: Ed Bok Lee's 'Whorled' illuminates earlier innocence
Lee is deft in speeding and halting a poem's flow through canny use of enjambment and spondaic meter, creating a subconscious tap with internal as well as ... «The International Examiner, Apr 15»
US position will be decisive for the truce in Eastern Ukraine
Host: Prof. Yonchev, day after the agreed cessation of fire there were signals for spondaic shootings in Eastern Ukraine yesterday. In this sense, for permanent ... «Focus News, Feb 15»
Great Moments in Swearing: The “GD Big Car” Edition
Yet the spondaic phrase “goddamn big car” does slow us down just for a moment, with the end-stopped comma serving as an additional pump on the brake, else ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 15»
Clive James looks back on a guiding force in Poetry Notebook 2006 …
... laid over an iambic pattern to give a spondaic tread”. Placing these technical pieces after the later, more accessible ones might have helped to ease us in a bit. «The Australian, Nov 14»
Karachi violence leaves 10 more dead
KARACHI: At least ten people, including seven found shot dead, were killed in spondaic incidents of firing in Karachi today, SAMAA reported Monday. «SAMAA TV, Jun 14»
Emerging Poets of 2014 - Poets Who Sound Like Spring
The spondaic start of the poem, as the speaker describes, "I step aside", jumpstarts the zoom of the "boy who pedals fast"; the one who can't be caught, but can ... «Stay Thirsty Media, Apr 14»
Emerging Poets of 2014 - Out of the Ordinary: Poets to Read Now
Because of Warren's spondaic start, "I know", paired with the infiltration of drawn out nasals, strong consonants like M's and N's that direct air through the nose, ... «Stay Thirsty Media, Jan 14»
Bruce Guernsey: Practicing Poet, Lapsed Catholic
... its perfect iambic pentameter a subtle mnemonic device, like a line from Shakespeare, the rise and fall of the beating heart, mine then in my spondaic throat. «First Things, Jan 13»
John Ashbery's illumination of a mercurial adolescent.
His line, loosely spondaic, is excellent on the ear: 'And out trot great fat blue black mares'. I do like it, and many others in Schmidt. But I'm not sure that he isn't ... «The Fortnightly Review, Jul 11»
