The pyrrhic/spondee substitution

[wasellajam]

Ugh, I'm so out of practice I feel the wheels grinding just reading your explanation. But yes, I'm in favor of all loop holes that work. I think having a skeleton, preferably almost invisible, to hang the poem on can give it a substance that a reader can feel. Meter, rhyme, the japanese forms with syllable/line count can all pull the reader along, ideally without them even noticing. It's often difficult to work within a framework and still have it read as naturally as free verse but it's fun to attempt and when successful gets those poems to really stick.