Accentual Verse

[milo]

Non-rhyming accentual poetry is just free verse.*

I suggest you go back to the poem that started the discussion:

http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/showthread.php?tid=13697

the suggestion was to write this as accentual verse. you may have joined too late to truly appreciate it . . .

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*There are traditional verse forms that require only a certain number of stresses per line as opposed to metric feet; however, all of these verse forms also have additional requirements such as alliteration, assonance, combinations of differing numbers of syllables per word, slant rhymes, etc. The idea that there is such a thing as "accentual verse" where the only requirement is the number of stresses per line is somewhat ludicrous.

I believe this is pretty much what I have been saying all along. Of course, I pretty much stood on rhyme or alliteration. It may be impossible to write in English at all without even accidentally employing some of these. The final qualification is that it needs to be a /regular/ application of specific sonic devices with a consistency to support the beats. One of them could simply be accentual (metric verse)