01-12-2013, 05:20 PM
It's amphibrachs 
We haven't really gone into those, they're "short on both sides" -- da DUM da.
She SMOthers/ her SIlence/ with ART__.
Like COFFee/ the TASTE at/ first BITTer
eVOLVES, takes/ the HEAD, breaks/ the HEART __.
You could also scan it as spondees and iambs, depending on how you pronounce it. That's the bugger of scansion, it's fairly accent-dependent and it makes a difference where you start your emphasis. So you're not wrong, and well spotted that it's not iambic
Your refrain change would bugger up my grammar, sorry
We haven't really gone into those, they're "short on both sides" -- da DUM da. She SMOthers/ her SIlence/ with ART__.
Like COFFee/ the TASTE at/ first BITTer
eVOLVES, takes/ the HEAD, breaks/ the HEART __.
You could also scan it as spondees and iambs, depending on how you pronounce it. That's the bugger of scansion, it's fairly accent-dependent and it makes a difference where you start your emphasis. So you're not wrong, and well spotted that it's not iambic
Your refrain change would bugger up my grammar, sorry
It could be worse