Hughes rejected the Latinate and courtly iamb in favour of bludgeoning trochees and spondees. The first four feet are normally dactyls, but can be spondees. Specifically, the first four feet can either be dactyls or spondees more or less freely. However, Keats incorporates spondees in 37 of the 250 metrical feet. Instead, spondees are found as irregular feet in meter based on another type of foot.