I have always pronounced it as an anapest, like Rhina. But that makes it no less lovely at the line ends, and the rhyme with unduly troubles me not a whit. This was written just as we were about to invade Iraq, and I believed it to be an elegant and elliptical protest of a war I support. I absolutely adore the poem. Ouch, I meant DACTYL, he edited. LAZuli
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