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Unread 08-24-2016, 11:32 AM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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I'm pretty sure the answer is no, Alex. Can't say I'm tempted to try it, since most readers of English poetry--including myself--can't even recognize the most popular classical meters, except for dactylic hexameter (when the dactyls aren't too substituted-out) and sapphics (and then only thanks to the shorter fourth line making me take a closer look at the first three). And the saturnian meter seems to have been unpopular even in antiquity.

But I'm open to being convinced that it's been unjustly neglected, if your experiments are successful.
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