"Modern" poetry in the Eastern Empire

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/08/i-dont-care-text-shows-modern-poetry-began-much-earlier-than-believed

[Imperial Dave]

shake it off, shake it off.....

[Andreas Johansson]

In Greek (and for that matter English), just about all modern poetry is indeed stress-based, but that's not true of all languages or poetic traditions. Our Guardian journalist gets an F in cultural sensitivity.