| But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee may take the place of the dactyl. |
| Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement. |
| Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl. |
| Variations on the traditional alcaic include the use of a long initial syllable and of a spondee in the first complete foot of the first three lines. |
| In the first of the two lines, an initial anapaest is followed by a spondee and two iambs. |
| Now there is only here and there a word in the whole English language that is a spondee. |
