dependency of meter on dialect

[lewis taylor]

I have met speakers of High German who seriously struggle to understand the dialects of small Swiss towns and such. To my knowledge, there isn't quite so much diversity in English. Though who knows, someday I may find myself reading a yank's poem and accidentally read the word aluminum as aloo-min-ium (as we do here in Australia) instead of aloo-minum and I'll have ruined the whole poem for myself.

I'd never considered this before, thanks for the thought