A Little Iambic Pentameter Never Hurt Anybody

Give it a chance. 
Proven fact that the sound and rhythm of poetry uniquely affect the brain.

--OLD IRONSIDES by Oliver Wendell Holmes (In 1830, a young Holmes read about the government's plan to scrap the Constitution.  The ship had been instrumental in defending the young United States.  Holmes penned these lines, using reverse psychology to make his point:   the Constitution should be preserved.    Today, the oldest commissioned ship in our country's history is one of Boston's most popular tourist spots:  a big vessel saved by a little poem.  By the way, this is not written in iambic pentameter, just iambic meter).

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!

       Long has it waved on high,

And many an eye has danced to see

       That banner in the sky;

Beneath it rung the battle shout.

        And burst the cannon's roar;--

The meteor of the ocean air

        Shall sweep the clouds no more!

Her deck, once red with heroes' blood
        Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood
         And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
         Or know the conquered knee;--
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
         The eagle of the sea!

O better that her shattered hulk
         Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
         And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
         Set every thread-bare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,--
         The lightning and the gale!