Michael,
You’re right on both counts of course that it was line 5 of Deborah’s poem I was referring to (not line 6) as being a syllable short, and that "easier" scans easily (and correctly for the scansion) as 3 syllables. I clearly wasn’t counting either lines or syllables very well this morning. I withdraw my comment on line 12 therefore. The headless line (5, not 6) still bothers me though.
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