The third and fourth feet are spondees, the first of which is divided by the main caesura of the verse.
12.
This line is made up of five dactyls and a closing spondee, an unusual rhythmic arrangement that imitates the described action.
13.
Dactylic hexameter depends on the sequence of long and short ( or dactyl ) or long & ndash; long ( spondee ).
14.
The first three feet of this line scan spondee-dactyl-spondee, but the fourth foot of has three consecutive short syllables.
15.
The first three feet of this line scan spondee-dactyl-spondee, but the fourth foot of has three consecutive short syllables.
16.
In local parlance, " Midland " is pronounced as a spondee, with nearly equal verbal emphasis on both first and last syllables.
17.
The following lines of Ennius would not have been felt admissible by later authors since they both contain repeated spondees at the beginning of consecutive lines:
18.
The first line of Vergil's " Aeneid " has the pattern dactyl-dactyl-spondee-spondee-dactyl-spondee:
19.
The first line of Vergil's " Aeneid " has the pattern dactyl-dactyl-spondee-spondee-dactyl-spondee:
20.
The first line of Vergil's " Aeneid " has the pattern dactyl-dactyl-spondee-spondee-dactyl-spondee:
