The trochaic inversion

[wasellajam]

Thanks for such a clear explanation. How's this?

Always behind absorbing poetic
tricks that will help my metered write.
Reading the explanation, clear as day,
somehow won't penetrate my foggy brain.

I love reading these in depth posts but one of you has to take a breath and let me know if I'm hearing this correctly. Some of us are taking baby steps.

lol - I was just getting to this one . . .

All 4 inversions are solid L1 and L2 are tetrameter and L4 and L5 are pentameter so it took me a few times.  Using alternate feet per line can work but usually either as a 5-4-5-4 pattern or as a shrinking pattern:

Reading the explanation, clear as day,
Always behind absorbing poetic
somehow won't penetrate my foggy brain.
tricks that will help my metered write.

ugh

ALways beHIND abSORBing (ah, now I can see how poetic has only one stress)

ugh, wtf, maybe I should try using shorter words, though that might not be as much fun.