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Originally Posted by Ashley Bowen
Re: the last line. I'm from the American South, and Southerners would definitely say that line, "don't SUFFering feel BETter IN a BRAND-new SUIT.
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I guess the question then is whether you're only writing for readers who know this. If not, you might look for something less metrically ambiguous.
It's the three-syllable foot that results from a two-syllable "suffering" that makes the line problematic, I think. Without that "suffering" could be read either way and it wouldn't impact the number of feet.
best,
Matt