| Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included. |
| If a line ends with two spondees it is a spondaic hexameter. |
| Both aspects of this poetry come naturally to Charles Wright, as do the electrically charged accentual beats and the tolling spondees that ripple through this poem. |
| Spondees are immediately enjambed, of course, but the syllable demotion is harder to intuit when the lines are individuated like this. |
| Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear. |
| The lines gradually increase from a trochaic monometer catalectic to a complicated decamter of spondees, anapaests, paeons, and dactyls. |
