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Originally Posted by Chris O'Carroll
Leonard Cohen strikes me as very much a metrical poet.
Non- (or primarily non-) metrical poets I admire include Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux, Martin Espada, Marge Piercy, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. E.E. Cummings is masterful in both rhyme/meter and free verse.
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What makes you say that re: Cohen? (I'm always interested in chatting about him)
His earlier stuff is definitely more traditional though I haven't analyzed the meter. Mid-career seems more a mix of avante-garde, minimalism, sometimes prose-like. Meter came back in his later work but it's a bit of both.
He was always well versed in it but the poetry that reached a bookstore was often non-met.