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V. Arvind on Sun 02 May 2010 08:42 PM Just revisiting this very interesting point you raised two weeks ago:

Thread'ed through | clam'or ous | marts' and | sen'ti nel | tow'ers |

dactyl-dactyl-trochee-dactyl-trochee—all falling feet. We’ll have to hunt out if there are at all similar examples elsewhere in literature. I couldn't find anything that can be called a line of dactylic-trochaic pentameter in the internet. However, I chanced upon Sri Aurobindo's scansion of Swinburne's lines in the letters. Here is one. It is trochee-trochee-dactyle-trochee-trochee.

Āll thě | nīght slěep | cāme nŏt ŭ|pōn mў | ēyelĭd |

Also, isn't it the case that Sri Aurobindo's Ilion is dactylic hexameter, and the lines are mostly all dactylic-trochaic? Here is one line which I found already scanned in K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar's essay:

One' and un|armed' in the | car' was the | dri'ver; | grey' was he, | shrunk'en| It is dactyl-dactyl-dactyl-trochee-dactyl-trochee.

If we drop the third trochee we get the "threaded through" line scansion!

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Here we should pursue some other pending comments by Vikas and Akash. The thread will continue on this post. ~ RYD