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"But PYRR / hus WOULD /n't ack / NOWledge / deFEAT"

iamb/ iamb/ pyrrhic/ trochee/ iamb -- or I guess at a stretch that trochee could be called a spondee (I wouldn't but scanning ain't no science).  So you're right about the foot either way.  It's just weird seeing it in those words when it's usually over and the but not dids.  Let the Pyrrhics claim their victory

 

by Leanne on Feb. 27 2008