When it comes to writing poetry, there are many students who abhor meter. I think that there are multiple reasons for this.
The first is that some of those students have been influenced by English teachers, who I theorize often dislike our counting-based friend meter because they’re English teachers, not math teachers. Personally, out of my three English teachers who covered meter, two said that they disliked or were bad at it. When even the teacher hates a certain topic in their own domain, students know that they’re in for a rough ride and get a negative first impression.