Accentual Verse

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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.

I would disagree that it is not a poem. Also, if you write consistent metric poetry and include 1 or 2 lines where the foot count is off - it does stick out, quite obviously i might add.

No problem on calling it a poem, but we all know not every poetic device improves every poem, they can wreck one just as easily.
I know that in metric poetry a foot off sticks out, I've tripped over my own plenty trying to learn it. But I'm not talking about metered poetry. I don't know how to label some of the poems I write, they sort of come from a perverted tanka force, but that really only matters to me. They sink or rise on their totality.
So are you saying that you don't think it will have any effect on the poem if most lines have 3 stresses and some have 2 or 4?