Each meter, then, is some combination of four such units, which may be realized as spondees, dactyls, anapests, or as four light syllables.
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If the import of the first line doesn't alert the reader to its metrical self-referentiality and poetic importance, thespondeeclosing the second almost certainly will.
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These equivalences allow for easy substitutions of one foot by another e.g. aspondeecan be substituted for a dactyl.
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This term suggests a line of six dactyls, but aspondeecan be substituted in most positions.
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The sixth foot is either aspondeeor a trochee.
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Thespondeetypically does not provide the basis for a metrical line.
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The other feet can be varied with aspondee, dactyl, tribrach, or more rarely an anapaest.
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There is generally one accent in each foot of a line, unless the foot is aspondee(//).
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Thespondeethreshold test is a related test that detects the loudness at which the participant is able to repeat half of a list of two syllable words or spondees.
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The fifth foot, therefore, is almost always a dactyl whereas the sixth foot consists of aspondee; this line ending is perhaps the most notable feature of the meter.
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