Svein, while we wait for the Lariat, I can tell you that that is a tetrameter line. There's no way to divide the third foot, "a rare sight," into separate feet.
For years/ she has been/ a rare sight/ to see./
The fact of more-or-less equal vocal stress on both rare and sight doesn't make them stand alone metrically. To do that you'd have to read the line like this, making it nonsensical:
For years she has been a rare...sight...to see.
The line's not well expressed anyway, from the redundant cliche "sight to see" at the end on back. More natural to say she's rarely been seen in past years or she hasn't been around much lately.
Carol
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