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poetic rhythm

NOUN
prosody
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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Beats fall with considerable regularity within the internal divisions of phrase and clause, so that a sense of poetic rhythm accumulates as you go.

From The New Yorker Mar. 29, 2017

Try as he did to be completely dispassionate, his works are suffused with strong, personal, poetic rhythm and color.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence its lack of poetic rhythm, its inability to leave the ground.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marlowe came, and the old wooden versification, the old lay-figure structure of poetic rhythm, was cast once for all into the lumber-room, where only poetasters of the lowest rank went to seek it.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

The two are often verbally identical, with a little change in the order of words, and some necessary additions to satisfy the alliteration, or fill out the poetic rhythm.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle




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