Words have different weight in different poets. So
"Now who will behold
The royal captain of that ruined band
Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent"
There is a Shakespearean muscularity that Creeley wouldn't have. Or D.H. Lawrence, "the insidious mastery of song / betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong..."
There the anapests and the polysyllabic words give a different weight to the speech. The only way to feel this is memorize and recite.
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