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Outline:

Intro: The Case For Accentual-Syllabic Verse

Nine Benefits of Meter

1. Compositional Mindfulness

2. Musicality

3. Memorability

4. Structural Integrity

5. Prosodic Expressivity

6. Prosodic Literacy

7. Allusiveness (with discussion of Post-Colonialism)

8. Stylistic Elevation

9. Advocacy of Order

The Benefits of Alliteration and Rhyme 

1. All the above!

2. Sonic-semantic linkage

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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)