SECOND EDIT: Sermon on the Destruction of Icons

[tectak]

Wouldn't "twice" break the iambic string, as "twice" and "built" are both fairly stretched syllables? Thank you for helping bring my poem to the better state it's now in, tectak You're a babe ><

Hi hes,
step back. stretching a word to get iambic (sic) string is not the same as getting the emphases to match.
Read it straight and tap out the emphases. You can get the line length to match by stretching but the emphases are out.

Down aisles twice built for yearning sheep
de........da........de.....da..de..dah...de...dah is perfect 8
Now, you wrote:

Down aisles built for yearning sheep
da.........de.....da....de....da..de..da which counts out 7

Yes?
tectak