If signals tend to pin the meter, the sensitivity can be reduced by adjustment of R1.

I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.

In Precis of a Journey, he says: “The O and the Rare in the original slab are so spaced that it is hard to know whether they were meant as one word or two. Was Jack Young who had the inscription cut a punster? Or did the stonecutter misunderstand? Certainly, a play upon words would have been much in the sentiment of the seventeenth century. So I suggest that the well-beloved epitaph may have been intended as Orare Ben Johnson—pray for Ben Jonson (a use of the infinitive frequent in taphology.)[…]”

And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!