Sorry, my fault not yours. I tried to make it clear, but I can see that it came out clear as mud—much too abstruse and esoteric. I began my posts to this thread by faulting the “rules” Joel presented “in response” to Hylander’s elementary dicta, and I should have left it at that. To mollify Hylander, I’ll repeat something I said in a different thread and have said many times before, though I’d have hoped it no longer needed saying: “the metron, not the foot, is the unit of analysis.”
On the different and more complex issues that Joel seems intent on discussing, I’ll just say this is not the first time he’s touted Miller’s linguistically outdated article of 1922. See e.g. http://discourse.textkit.com/t/is-word-accent-relevant/13586/15