/lit/ - Literature

>>19195448
No dictionary can contain the entirety of a language's usage, especially one so broadly used as English, but it seems you've chosen an especially shoddy example. These pronunciations aren't that rare. Although both are listed second (at least by these authors) they're more common in literary and religious texts, and your poem evokes both of those milieus. That being the case, your poem actually reads more shoddily to someone who's very familiar with English (and is more likely to have an internalized awareness of the pronunciation variation according to context; these are generally less known than variations according to usage) than an ESL. Personally, although I found your intended reading obvious when explicitly counting syllables, I defaulted to the unintended readings on my first read-through because of this.