Alan,
It's certainly irregular meter, in places, but mostly iambic...
You've motivated me to revisit the description of that third category, from which I've plucked this line:
(Anybody who was a real prick seems to have an affinity for this approach.)
...Which seems worthy of reflection; hmmm...
I sense a discussion brewing, on the relative merits of these styles; but I've never been much interested in strictly regular meters, with exceptions, so I'm thinking we would fall on opposite sides of the coin, stubbornly.
Curtis.
P.S. Your statement, "The stress placement is so irregular that I would dub them syllabic," introduces another angle to the discussion: BANNED POSTwhy should a regularity of stress-placement between lines be a prerequisite for accentual/syllabic verse?
[This message has been edited by Curtis Gale Weeks (edited February 01, 2002).]