On the Subject of Optimized Meter

For the record, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is a trochee.

Table 1: Find the lines displayed on the module in this table.

Poetic Foot	Pattern	Value	Line
Molossus	sss	1	Break, Break, Break
Spondee	ss	2	Cry! Cry!
			Fie! Fie!
			Shut up!
Bacchius	uss	3	When day breaks / the fish bite / at small flies
Amphibrach	usu	4	And, speaking of birds, there’s the Russian Palooski / whose headski is redski and belly is blueski
			How dead to my heart are the scenes of my childhood
			it’s four in the morning, the end of december / I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better
			There once was a girl from Nantucket
Dibrach	uu	5
Antibacchius	ssu	6	Blind luck is loved more than hard thinking
Dactyl	suu	7	Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness
			Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward,
			Higgledy piggledy, / Bacon, lord Chancellor.
			Out of the mockingbird’s throat
			This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks
Iamb	us	8	If you were coming in the fall / I’d brush the summer by
			Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish?
			Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
			The guests are met, the feast is set: / May’st hear the merry din.
			The way a crow / Shook down on me / The dust of snow
			To swell the gourd and plump the hazel shells
Anapest	uus	9	And since birth I’ve been cursed with this curse to just curse
			There was one who was famed for the number of things / He forgot when he entered the sip:
			Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
			You have brains in your head. / You have feet in your shoes
Cretic	sus	10	La-di-dah!
Trochee	su	11	And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
			Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
			Got a long list of ex-lovers
			Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
			One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
			Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright
Tribrach	uuu	12

Table 2: Letter values

Character	Poetic Foot	Value		Character	Poetic Foot	Value
A	Trochee	11		N	Amphibrach	4
B	Trochee	11		O	Trochee	11
C	Trochee	11		P	Trochee	11
D	Trochee	11		Q	Iamb	8
E	Trochee	11		R	Dactyl	7
F	Trochee	11		S	Amphibrach	4
G	Single syllable	1		T	Trochee	11
H	Iamb	8		U	Dactyl	7
I	Dactyl	7		V	Spondee	2
J	Anapest	9		W	Trochee	11
K	Trochee	11		X	Spondee	2
L	Trochee	11		Y	Trochee	11
M	Single syllable	1		Z	Spondee	2

Solving the Module

1. Calculate the Foot Modifier by looking up the values of the first two letters from the Serial Number in Table 2, and adding them together with the last digit in the Serial Number.
2. Find the lines displayed on the module in Table 1, and add the Foot Modifier to each. Subtract 12 from each result until it is a value between 1 and 12 inclusive.
3. Find the modified values in Table 1, and take the corresponding Pattern.
4. Enter the modified patterns on the module, pressing for u, and for s.