Think of learning meter like 'mental muscle memory'

When you learn something well enough you don't have to think about it.
You will have noticed there is very little formal meter in my poetry but because I know it it slips in when appropriate.
Many poets have an objection to learning meter because they think it will restrict them into formalism. Quite the the opposite, it expands your creative abilities.

Have a go, it only requires writing four four line poems and I think this could be the best workshop I have run on Meter.
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/basic-and-essential-meter

And it does make a difference, An Americarn once said to me, facetiously.

"The language is the same only the emphasis is different"

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0kPMPwxSNRZ
cheers
Jess