Hello Jan,
So I took your initial comment in many directions but did not elaborate because you did not elaborate.
For me each person has their own music of spoken English, partly reflecting their own emotional and mental rhythms, and especially each poet has their own music of spoken English that gets expressed within the many levels of patterning that exists in poems. In terms of stuff like dialect, accent, mother tongue, I did find myself pushing the idiom in a certain direction slightly away from how I would normally speak (you might call it "mannered").
Being able to write lines that scan is just the first basic skill in rhyme and meter, and then skills mount on top of that basic skill which allows various "musicalities", but a person has to be able to make the aural distinctions necessary to bring about different aural effects.
Yeah!
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