See, I love Eliot’s use of meter because he is very precisely economical with it; rather than consistent adherence to meter (like the great poets whom he viewed as his literary predecessors), he uses meter for effect. I haven’t read the waste land in a while, but I quite enjoyed Four Quartets in part due to his deliberate use of meter.

Absolutely. You’ve articulated it much better than I could. I believe that good poetry needs meter (of some sort, though not as consistent as the Romantics’ adherence to meter or of course Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter).

Rhyme can be cheap. What critics (think Harold Bloom and the like) have widely agreed upon as good poetry often lacks rhyme.

GPT-3 is very bad at writing like the best authors of English literature. There’s a cheapness, a certain stiffness, and penchant for trite language to its prose. And it cannot emulate the prosody of Shakespeare or any of the greatest poets and authors (yet).

Fractional max-pooling?