That said, I do think that any kind of attempt to convert poetic rhythm from one sense (sound) to another (sight) is going to offer a poor substitute. I always taught standard graphic scansion with the caveat that, no matter how many scansion symbols one used, you'd end up with only an approximation. Some meters (trochaic or anapestic tetrameter, for example) tend to be "louder" than others.
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