When I'm reading books out loud, it makes me crazy when the metre doesn't work, and I find myself rewriting the lines to fix them. It just seems so sloppy! So for example tonight I was reading On the Night You Were Born and I came to this line:

It sailed through the farmland high on the breeze, over the ocean and through the trees

So I had to edit it to "through all the trees". My husband doesn't like it because he says it will make it harder for B to learn to read if he's following along but...come on, just have the same syllables in each verse!