Accentual Verse

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That is pretty much what I am saying. If you are writing free verse than the break is one of your most important elements and to subrogate it to a beat count is to produce inferior poetry. Others, it would seem, disagree. i wish I still had the writing from my accentual verse days but, unfortunately, it fell to the purge.

There's no way I would sacrifice breaks for this. I love my breaks, and take them often, I was just thinking of trying to maintain the integrity of the poem while swapping out a word or two in spots to change the stress patterns. It's not all or nothing, yanno.

I doubt the exercise would cause you undue pain or in any way alter the course of English literature for the worse, I was brushing with broad strokes.