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I find that the tone of a metered poem tends to be more sing-song, and when I want that tone for my poem (either ironically or literally) I use meter. When I want a more fragmented poem, I use free verse without a specific meter pattern.
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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