Accentual Verse

[milo]

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

The question isn't accentual vs metered but accentual vs free-verse. The question being - does arranging the lines due to where the beats fall improve the poem. Changing the line breaks in accentual non-rhyming verse makes it into free verse.

It would be interesting to take a poem written in accentual verse, rearrange the line breaks (now transmuting it into free verse) and seeing if the poem was in any noticeable way worse - specifically when read aloud.