Accentual Verse

[Leanne]

These are written to be spoken, plain and simple. While IP and other regular meters do make for a wonderfully neat skeleton, they are not the be-all and end-all of poetry. Unfortunately, meter has ruined me and I can't write properly without it anymore

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Poems such as The Son of a Fool by C.J. Dennis -- though an anal soul might call them "metric variants", in truth he's simply writing to the beat.

we need an example of /non-rhyming/ accentual poetry to test whether sticking to the beats improves the poem. Were we to change the breaks in rhyming poetry, a reader would just read through to the rhyme.

Non-rhyming accentual poetry is just free verse.*