Yes, of course, most of those beautiful rhythmical effects are not consciously plotted out, not in the sense that the poet thinks, "Ah, better have a trochee here, and this next vowel must be long &c &c"---but they're NOT accidental. Yeats and
most of us say the line or lines over and over, weighing and
judging---by ear---until it sounds right. (Of course, for those of us who aren't all that good, it may sound right but still be wrong.) I simply mean that one goes along line by line trying to get the sound, the whole sound, meter, vowel length, pitch, tone etc ad infinitum, and hopes for the best.
You're not thinking about vowel length, pitch, etc., or very
rarely---you're just listening intently, no?
More later.
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