Tim---sometimes idiosyncratic. But there are
distinctions. (Of course they would only matter
to madmen like ourselves.) I would agree for
example that one could conceivably read
that Justice line with a trochee in the second
foot (although I think that the iambic cadence
is much to be preferred). But in the earlier
instance, "...community, OLD FRIENDS" I would
argue that to read it as ionic is to be forced
to distort the language slightly, not only because
the suppression of the accent on ty is rather
unnatural, but because the caesura interrupts the
movement slightly. What do you think?
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