Nigel,
I guess I'd have (unhelpfully) to say that the proof of the pudding would be in the eating. I'd be sceptical that one could bring it off, but if someone can do it more power to them. In general trying to reproduce the effects of a quantitative meter in an accentual meter, or in a language that "normally" uses accetual meters, is I think a thankless task. I'd say that the only poet in all English who brings it off is Campion (Bridges I think fails, though I have friends who disagree on this). My own instinct would be to abandon notions of bringing over the ghost of quantitative meter into English, but that perhaps is just cowardice, or an acknolwdgement of my own lack of competence at doing this.
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