meter v rhythm

[billy]

On another note, I'm sure I've read great poems that fulfilled the classical metrics of any such form, yet I have found it very difficult to find anything very pleasing to me as to its rhythm, at least as I continually read it back to myself.

I'm trying my best to express my own sometimes confusion as to this rhythm/meter question.

there's a device called cacophony where we use collections of words that are hard on the ears. though it's use i would think is more an exception than a rule; if it's cacophonic by accident, then the rhythm is probably screwed as might be the meter.

some of Lewis Carrol's poetry used cacophony [the jabberwock] though i'm sure he meant to as it's one of my favorite poems. i think i agree with ella that if we take time over meter the rhytm will show itself and we will end up with a better piece.