Well, Jody, as you know, that's one of the things Poe argues for, & it certainly makes sense in English. But there are reasons for the two beat feet, though possibly not practical ones. At least to understand that these choriambic meters were inherited from an earlier, more fundamental tradition seems not excessively pedantic--the choriamb is the generative principle which trochee-dactyl scansion obscures.
Chris
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