ïòèéäåñ + âïê + ûáò + áäáí = ñíâ + èïòåê + ûáòáäïéä + A 
 
ÏÒÈÉÄÅÑ - orchid 
ÂÏÊ - combat
ÛÁÒ - globe
áÄÁÍ - Adam
ÑÍÂ - iamb
ÈÏÒÅÊ - trochee
ÛÁÒÁÄÏÉÄ - "charadoid" (a charade-like puzzle)
 
"an iamb from a trochee he could not -
no matter how we strove - distinguish
dispraised Homer, Theocritus,
but read, in compensation, Adam Smith" (EO, One:VII:3-6)
 
Alexey Sklyarenko
 
p. s. The last line of my previous post should read: "he believed that poets who wished to convince should use the anapaest (p. 221 of the Panthers edition)".
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