Reads as pentameter to me.
That referred to the poem initially posted along with the question of whether we had difficulty in reading it as accentual tetrameter.
There is a glaringly obvious problem with scanning this latest effort, as all sorts of sections open with Suppiluliumas, which is not fully included in my everyday vocab., I must confess. SUP-pi-LU-li-u-MAS has half my hexametric budget bursting on the first line almost before it's started.
A sign at the top saying THIS IS HEXAMETRIC, along with a contextually useful inclusion in, say, the quiz page at the back of a magazine, could probably motivate me to find six stressable syllables per line. I'd be hard put to come up with a reading like that under any - er - normal cicumstances though.
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[This message has been edited by peter richards (edited August 20, 2005).]
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