Nor older poets, as I illustrate, drat it. But yes, that's the best tip of all. Fashion changes when someone breaks a rule well and does it consistently so it can be identified as style. That's hard for a new poet, though, because if you don't know the "tricks of the trade," you don't know why they exist, and how changing them might affect the art.
(I've tried to make awkward line breaks and a gazillion adjectives stylish but so far, I just show up anonymously in poetry magazines with a black bar over my face. "Don't go out of the house rhyming like this lady!")
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