Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.
The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.
The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.