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TLDR: Somebody changed the line from Wyeth's original poem to add two syllables and turn it from iambic tetrameter to iambic pentameter. The line you quote in the post is iambic pentameter. The original line was indeed iambic tetrameter.
In the early 16th century, the rules of iambic pentameter were much looser, and poets experimented a lot with their meters....
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