Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I definitely plan to post some metred poetry. I also hesitate to start off with my newest bits and pieces, partly because I hope to publish them someday. That leads me to another question. If I post something here, I suppose that I do keep my intellectual property rights to it, but at the same time, I have made it available in the public sphere, and anyone could plagiarise it and claim it as their own. Is it safe to post things that you want to publish one day on Steemit? I don't expect you to know the answer, but it would be most convenient if you did.

In my English lit BA I was also given no instruction on writing metred poetry, but most of my studies of poetry were done long before that on my own time, my parents having been very keen on the classics, so metred poetry has always seemed natural to me. Maybe I am a bit of a traditionalist elitist, but it appears superior to me, and I don't think it is quite as difficult as a lot of people think. Have a good night!