G'd morning, Caleb. I would call this anapestic verse, because the anapest becomes, in sufficient numbers, and in the absence of other substitutions, the signature foot--the characteristic departure from the iambic norm in this poem.
I think Hardy relies on the anapestic momentum being sufficient to override any stress on "sees." I agree the line would be an unpleasant one if a reader took it otherwise. In our time, with fewer metrically sophisticated readers, it might be unwise to craft a line like this.
Alan Sullivan
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