Henry, I quite agree with you that it should just be read as accentual hexameter, which is why I said that scansion into feet was unproductive. And thanks for posting the train poem, a fine example of loose iambics. By all means, post more hexameters. Yes, l1, s3 is the septameter. I wonder if he just lost count, or given the subject of the line, lengthened it for expressive purposes. I'm a little disappointed at the tepid reaction. Taken all together, I think the Western Elegies are the most remarkable poems of the last twenty years. I should write and think so well at eighty-five!
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