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inversion (meter)
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Substitution (poetry)
In English poetry
substitution
, also known as
inversion
, is the use of an alien metric
foot
in a line of otherwise regular
metrical pattern
. For instance in an
iambic
line of "da DUM", a
trochaic
substitution would introduce a foot of "DUM da".
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