sprung rhythm
1Sprung rhythm — is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables. The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins… …
2sprung rhythm — sprung′ rhythm n. pro a poetic rhythm using strongly accented syllables, often juxtaposed, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables • Etymology: term introduced by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877) …
3sprung rhythm — n. [term coined by HOPKINS Gerard Manley] a kind of rhythm in English poetry, based on the normal rhythms of speech and made up of a mixture of feet, each foot consisting of either a single stressed syllable or a stressed syllable followed by one …
4sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component. [term introduced …
5sprung rhythm — noun a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech • Hypernyms: ↑poetic rhythm, ↑rhythmic pattern, ↑prosody * * * noun : a poetic rhythm designed to approximate the natural rhythm of speech and characterized by the frequent juxtaposition of… …
6sprung rhythm — noun Date: 1877 a poetic rhythm designed to approximate the natural rhythm of speech and characterized by the frequent juxtaposition of single accented syllables and the occurrence of mixed types of feet …
7sprung rhythm — /sprʌŋ ˈrɪðəm/ (say sprung ridhuhm) noun a system of prosody with the accent always on the first syllable of every foot followed by a varying number of unaccented syllables, all feet being given equal time length …
8sprung rhythm — noun a poetic metre approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones. Origin C19: coined by the English poet G. M. Hopkins …
9rhythm — rhythmless, adj. /ridh euhm/, n. 1. movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like. 2. Music. a. the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic… …
10rhythm — Synonyms and related words: Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, alternation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arrhythmia, arsis, bacchius, balance, beat, beating, beauty, cadence, cadency, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb,… …
