The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee. The sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee ("daa-duh"). In another context, it refers to a spondee in Sanskrit prosody. This line is nearly all dactyls except for the spondee at "-lata e". The Judes were accompanied on their Australian tour by Newcastle acoustic duo, Dactyl Spondee. Similarly a Dactyl, an Anapaest and a Spondee are quantitatively equal, each being 4 morae. The spondee typically does not provide the basis for a metrical line in poetry.