| Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl. |
| The lost syllable of each dipody may be doubtful, which explains why the last foot of each dipody may be a spondee. |
| Now there is only here and there a word in the whole English language that is a spondee. |
| There is, in fact, no such thing as a spondee in ordinary speech. |
| In the first of the two lines, an initial anapaest is followed by a spondee and two iambs. |
| But the line again picks up momentum with the spondee, only to again be slowed down by two dactyls. |
