Substitution (poetry)

In English poetry substitution, also known as inversion, is the use of an alien metric foot in a line of otherwise regular metrical pattern.^[1] For instance in an iambic line of "da DUM", a trochaic substitution would introduce a foot of "DUM da".

^ Fry, Stephen (2005). The Ode Less Travelled. Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0-09-950934-9.

[fry-1] Fry, Stephen (2005). The Ode Less Travelled. Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0-09-950934-9.

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