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I don't see any of those lines as an exception. They each have promotions. Disregard the 'rules' and listen: we perform the promotions automatically. They're inherent in the spoken English language. Ignoring them just so we can those lines acc-dimeter seems counter productive.
Mark,
At this point you lose me. I'm going to read a line naturally: I'm not going to ignore natural accents and stresses and just stress two syllables.
Whatever you choose to call it, it reads aloud the same. So, I guess I have no problem with you calling it acc. dimeter, but I think most people would find it confusing to discuss it as such, and would respond better to the acc-syl terminology.
Again, the whole function of the terminology is to discuss the metrics. All it seems you're doing is muddying the conversation for a lot of people.
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