Pentameter is Really Not My Thing.

Pentameter just bubbles from my lips. I write in it subconsciously, sometimes. But when it comes to poetry, my line does not quite fit the pentametric mold. I find that, when I write subconsciously, that is to say when verse occurs to me full-formed and in the middle of the night, it happens with a heptametric line. And furthermore a specific type of heptameter (and that line feels so natural, I'll bet it slipped by you): a line of eight, a line of six, with little or no thought to trochees, spondees, and especially not to iams. If iams are "ti-tum", I wonder if there is a word for feet that read "ti-ti." I think I need to invent it:

I hereby define the undee:
A metric foot that reads
With no stressed syllable at all.
*and the* verse I write is
Brandonesian Heptameter.
I like being unique;
It makes me think my niche is filled
And my contribution
To the universe after death
(If I'm allowed to die)
Will be remembered after all,
And that's a nice feeling.

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I had to put some work into this post, which makes me think it's not quite accurate.