Hi Tony,
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Still, I do feel that there are gaps in my education, gap so wide "even two can pass abreast" as it might be.
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Make that "four abreast", then, in my case! Pyrrhics, anapests, trochees, catalexis, promoted, demoted, substitutions, headless... complex stuff, this poetry!
I'm intrigued by Maryann's question:
On the larger question--what were you taught about where substitutions are permitted?--very anciently, I was taught that in pentameter, trochaic substitutions are permitted in the first and third feet only.
Taught it to that level? Where? At school? University? I've never been taught anything along these lines but, like you, 'I taught myself from books', and still have to double-check some of the more obscure poetic devices.
(You sound knowledgeable enough about it all, to me, Tony!
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