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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
Would you agree that if the poem were lineated as rhyming couplets it would be properly scanned as trochaic heptameter?
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Good question, RogerBob, and it's made me reevaluate.
I hear "Jack and Jill" as iambic. But my ear relies on breaking it into units ("fell down," even before I hit the rhyme, feels more like a unit than "Jack fell" or "down and") and when I listen to "The Raven," many of the units there sound iambic, too, so maybe that's not so helpful.
Certainly "Jack and Jill" can be scanned as trochaic heptameter with internal rhyme.