| Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic. |
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| These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic. |
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| Staggered Spondaic Measure of ability to segregate competing Word Test speech signals using spondaic word pairs. |
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| Several lines actually resist the falling rhythm with a spondaic resolution. |
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| Pound's line-despite the pyrrhic and spondaic feet with which it heaves away-sticks in my mind because of those strong initial iambs. |
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| The tale recounted that the man only began to respond to reason when the mode of the music was changed to the slow and rhythmic Spondaic mode. |
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