Alan: Is there (or should there be) such a thing as metered prose? - I've read a section of prose that's in a regular meter. And some blank verse (shorn of line-breaks) could be mistaken for metered prose.
More generally, I think that prose could learn a thing or 2 from poetry formalists regarding attention to sound and letters - see
http://homepages.tesco.net/~magdtp/fowed.html