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Frost uses this metronomic rhythm, a rigorous structuring of language in time, to hypnotize the reader, to cast a spell that removes them from time, like the narrator is in his quiet contemplation of the woods.
We don't read this poem in the metronomic way that I did just a second ago, we read it according to the sounds of sense.
However, the finger technique speed readers use is less about smooth pursuit and more about keeping a metronomic guide to maintain a rapid pace of reading.