| 1. | The first four feet are normally dactyls, but can be spondees.
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| 2. | The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee.
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| 3. | The Judes were accompanied on their Australian tour by Newcastle acoustic duo, Dactyl Spondee.
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| 4. | The final foot is a spondee.
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| 5. | Within his measure, Keats incorporates spondees in approximately 13.9 % of his verses.
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| 6. | In classical meter spondees are easily identified because the distinction between long and short syllables is unambiguous.
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| 7. | This line is nearly all dactyls except for the spondee at "-lata e ".
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| 8. | Spondees can take the place of the dactyls in the first half, but never in the second.
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| 9. | This term suggests a line of six dactyls, but a spondee can be substituted in most positions.
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| 10. | Silius'metrics and language can be closely compared to Virgilian usage, especially his use of spondees.
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