KNEE-JERK ALERT! How unclear was I? I am NOT advocating fixed assumptions about scansion. Did I scrape off an old scab and thus am assumed to be guilty of the original wound? I'm not going in the direction in which someone here assumes I'm headed. Of course scansion is determined by any given context! But I am especially curious about differences in what we English-speakers "hear."
Thanks, Maryann, for the link. Perhaps I'll pick up insights on such differences there.
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