Miller offers tour-de-force comparative readings... threading together the world-historical with the personal, poetics with the political, and wielding the instruments of scansion as deftly as a surgeon.
Some prosodists indicate only ictic (or, in rhythmic scansion, only stressed) syllables, but this is not ideal since the number, position, and character of non-ictic syllables is also metrically significant.
The top line represents his single-line scansion from 1995, and the lower lines uses his original 2-line system of 1982 (these are "theoretically" identical, only "graphically" different).
Rhyming stories are notoriously difficult to write, but here the scansion works and the rhyme (both internal and end rhymes) makes the story a delight to read out loud.