I think if you roughen it up and vary it it works very well for certain sorts of poem. I wrote one about looking after my very young daughter more than a quarter of a century ago. I won't quote a lot but here's a stanza the first one, so that you get the idea. I've always known the thing as a fourteener, but a lot of the lines here have more than fourteen syllables.
The sportsfield's just a field again, the grass just grass, from the ledge
On the nettled stile, to the exhausted gate, from the ditch to the tousled hedge,
An unmarked, roughly mown, undifferentiated scene,
And in the middle, my tiny daughter, tinier in all that green
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