[Wintaka]

I think that if foreign language meters are to be grouped with English ones we should certainly mention quantitative verse.

Okay, so let's take stock. Accentual meter counts stresses, syllabic counts syllables and accentual-syllabic counts feet. As far as I can see the only thing they have in common is counting. This means that we may need to consider "leximetric" poems like WCW's "The Red Wheelbarrow" (i.e. 3 words, then 1, in each stanza) as well.*

FWIW, I appreciate posters identifying any meter other than accentual-syllabic, regardless of where the poem is posted. Unless all of the above end up on Metrical/TDE maybe Non-Metrical should be renamed. In the case of the status quo, "NASOA" ("Not accentual-syllabic or accentual"), perhaps?

Just my 2 cents,

Colin

* To stretch the point, concrete poems involve close counting of letters to form those shapes so I suppose they might be contemplated, too.

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