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Unread 06-29-2018, 02:44 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Originally Posted by Perry James View Post
This line ...

and a German soldier directing him

... has ten syllables, but there is no way to make it iambic pentameter, is there?
Perhaps

a German soldier, too, directing him

or

a German soldier also, as his guide

or various other rephrasings, depending on the context. It mostly depends on what "and" is actually linking.
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