My understanding of Latin poetry (pretty dang limited) is that it’s based around meter dictating use of long and short syllables (rather than stressed and unstressed, as in English poetry), and that rhyme wasn’t much used (it’s too easy!). So it probably was in meter in the original Latin, but a different sort of meter.
My understanding of Latin poetry (pretty dang limited) is that it’s based around meter dictating use of long and short syllables (rather than stressed and unstressed, as in English poetry), and that rhyme wasn’t much used (it’s too easy!). So it probably was in meter in the original Latin, but a different sort of meter.
Meter != iambic pentameter, though!