The trochaic inversion

[rayheinrich]

I dislike characterizing variations as named feet. I like to think of
iambic pentameter as a line of five stressed syllables with spaces
around them. As long as you fill most of the preceding spaces with
unstressed syllables, you can take the liberty of filling in two short
unstressed syllables, a stressed syllable, a pause, or excluding one
at the beginning or including one at the end.

I always read that line as:
how DO i LOVE thee LET me COUNT the WAYS

And I read these lines like:
to BE, or NOT to BE: that IS the QUEStion: (PAUSE)
WHEther 'tis NObler in the MIND to SUFfer
The SLINGS and ARrows of outRAGeous FORtune, (PAUSE)
or to take ARMS aGAINST a SEA of TROUBles,
and BY opPOSing END them? (PAUSE) To DIE: to SLEEP;

And read these lines like:
but SWINGing DOEsn’t BEND them DOWN to STAY
as ICE-storms DO. (pause) OFten you MUST have SEEN them
LOADed with ICE a SUNny WINter MORNing
AFter a RAIN. (pause) They CLICK uPON themSELVES
as the BREEZE RISes, and turn MAny-COLored
as the stir CRACKS and CRAZES their eNAmel. (pause)
SOON the sun’s WARMTH makes them SHED crystal SHELLS (pause)
SHATtering and AvaLANCHing on the SNOW-CRUST— (pause)

Such HEAPS of BROken GLASS to SWEEP aWAY (pause)
You’d THINK the INner DOME of HEAven had FALLen.