Like storm clouds in a troubled sky
That's a very interesting line, because it can be pronounced in three ways, two of which are very similar:
x X / x X / x X / x X
x X / X x / x X / x X
x X X / x x X / x X
How it would be pronounced depends on the line leading up to it and the overall meter of the poem. (The 3rd of those three scansions would be different from the 2nd in that there would be more of a pause between the first and second foot, as I read it.)
So what you're saying, Robert, is that "clouds in" is the inverted iamb, because it really wants to be a trochee, right?
I find that line particularly interesting because it reminds me of the kind of syllabic poetry I write myself, and which I've noticed that I tend to speak in clusters. I might say that line more like this:
x X X / x x / X x X
Of course, that's not any kind of reasonable scansion, but that's how I often read poetry, in clumps of rhythmic sounds.
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