Mark,
Glad you're enjoying the Hynes book.
I do wonder sometimes, though, if scansion "reads" for the uninitiated these days. I seem to recall Anthony Hecht complaining several decades ago that the doubly dactyls he solicited from the general public were almost always six syllables long but frequently not dactylic.
For that matter, I, like others here, no doubt, have gotten unrhymed metrical verse into not very formal-friendly journals--and I have to assume the pieces in question were taken for free verse.
That said, you don't have to know what 4/4 time is to tap your feet.
Quincy
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