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Elizabeth Daryush, yes: "Note" dated 1934. > syllabic metres (by which I mean metres governed only by the number of syllables to the line, and in which the number and position of the stresses may be varied at will) and are so printed as a reminder to the reader to follow the natural speech-rhythm...In accentual verse the metre demands and justifies the use both of optional and incomplete elisions, but these are obviously out of place in a purely syllabic system....reduction of the syllabic units to their limit, so as to prevent uncertainty....I have long thought that on some such system as this for base, it should be possible to build up subtler and more freely-followed accentual patterns than can be obtained either by stress-verse proper, or by the traditional so-called syllabic metres. > She doesn't mention the "odd number" principle in this extract (_Selected Poems ~ from Verses I-VI _); I don't have _Verses VII_, which Carcanet also published. Martin