Yeah...this is what I was thinking about-- the consequences. A sestina in Tetra- versus a Pentameter-- 1 Foot x 39 lines-- that's more than six full hexameters! A villanelle-- 19 x 1 Foot-- almost five extra pentameter lines. Believe me, you can tell the difference when you read these things at open-mics. I write almost all these repeating-type forms in Tetrameter these days.
Some famous poet-pairs: Jonathon Swift and Alexander Pope...the former mostly tetrameter-- the latter almost excusively pentameter. Simlarly, Andrew Marvell and Milton.
Long as were here...Timothy on Metrical II wanted to know what you call a line in two metrical feet...Bimeter, Dimeter, Dynamic TIMeter?
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