03-25-2014, 09:45 AM
I am not saying that consistent stresses per line makes a poem. I've managed to write perfect IP that we really shouldn't call a poem. 
We could break it up into 5 and 7 syllable lines and see if the ones that are 8 or 9 stick out. They wouldn't.
What I'm curious about is if a non-stressed poem that naturally (or accidentally) has mostly 3 stress lines would improve the reader's experience if the remaining lines were manipulated to match. Please excuse my lack of correct terms for this stuff, I'm just learning, but the above example isn't a poem so applying any poetic device and then judging the device doesn't make sense to me.
We could break it up into 5 and 7 syllable lines and see if the ones that are 8 or 9 stick out. They wouldn't.
What I'm curious about is if a non-stressed poem that naturally (or accidentally) has mostly 3 stress lines would improve the reader's experience if the remaining lines were manipulated to match. Please excuse my lack of correct terms for this stuff, I'm just learning, but the above example isn't a poem so applying any poetic device and then judging the device doesn't make sense to me.
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