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sprung rhythm

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sprung rhythm
n.
A poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of speech, in which each foot has one stressed syllable, either standing alone or followed by a varying number of unstressed syllables.

[Coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins.]
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Noun1.sprung rhythm - a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech
poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody - (prosody) a system of versification


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