You may argue that if you wish, but when reading poetry, meter is established before the words themselves. You have scanned the second stanza of The Sick Rose entirely wrong. It ought to be:
Has found / out thy bed -- anapaestic dimeter, but with an iamb substitute in the first foot
Of crimson joy: -- iambic dimeter
And his dark /secret love -- anapaestic dimeter
Does thy life / destroy. -- anapaestic dimeter, with an iamb substitute in the last foot
Although calling on Blake was rather a non sequitur in this thread anyway, as your control of meter is lightyears away from his. You may not excuse your own inadequacies by throwing up examples of technical brilliance by other poets.
PS. I can't stand it anymore. Yeats was not an ENGLISH poet.
PPS. You could try reading Milo's poetry if you want to know how meter is handled properly by contemporary poets who have mastered it, rather than simply writing off everyone in the last century, although Milo's not an ENGLISH poet either. For that matter, we could give you a list of hundreds of poets writing post WWII who are excellent formalists. Your assumptions and assertions do you no favours.
Has found / out thy bed -- anapaestic dimeter, but with an iamb substitute in the first foot
Of crimson joy: -- iambic dimeter
And his dark /secret love -- anapaestic dimeter
Does thy life / destroy. -- anapaestic dimeter, with an iamb substitute in the last foot
Although calling on Blake was rather a non sequitur in this thread anyway, as your control of meter is lightyears away from his. You may not excuse your own inadequacies by throwing up examples of technical brilliance by other poets.
PS. I can't stand it anymore. Yeats was not an ENGLISH poet.
PPS. You could try reading Milo's poetry if you want to know how meter is handled properly by contemporary poets who have mastered it, rather than simply writing off everyone in the last century, although Milo's not an ENGLISH poet either. For that matter, we could give you a list of hundreds of poets writing post WWII who are excellent formalists. Your assumptions and assertions do you no favours.
It could be worse