Substitutions are found in accented-syllabic poetry when one foot is replaced with another. Typically, it's done to rearrange stressed syllables and place emphasis on specific words or create a more pleasing rhythm to better fit a phrase.
| Poem | Feet |
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Excerpt from "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos" by Lord Byron If, in the month of dark December, |
Meter: Iambic Tetrameter [/ --] -- / -- / -- / (--) Trochaic Substitution |