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She adds: “As far as meter goes I think spondees make for the best, snappiest titles: ‘White Noise.’
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2018
Watch the 2010 documentary “Louder Than a Bomb,” witness inner-city high school spoken-word teams’ fervent investment in articulating their lives, and it’s hard to care if they’ve mastered dactyls and spondees.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
"Hot sun" and "cool fire" are both spondees.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2010
He talks of a blustering poet, "all red and arrogant and full of spondees."
From Time Magazine Archive
The nimble dactyl striving to out-go, The drawling spondees pacing it below.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
