02-01-2015, 08:47 AM
I think I see what you mean. To my hearing, or the way I was sounding out the line, "aisles" was two syllables (eye - awls), the first long and the second short. Is that what you're referring to, the amount of syllables in "aisles"?
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

