sprung rhythm

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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sprung rhythm

(Poetry) prosody a type of poetic rhythm characterized by metrical feet of irregular composition, each having one strongly stressed syllable, often the first, and an indefinite number of unstressed syllables

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sprung′ rhythm`

a poetic rhythm using strongly accented syllables, often juxtaposed, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables.

[term introduced by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877)]

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sprung rhythm - a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech

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Carole Birkan-Berz in "Traduire le rythme non iambique" (Palimpsestes 27: 81-99) also concentrates on the discordant in meter: how can Hopkins's sprung rhythm and other non-iambic meters be translated into other languages, especially French?

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Hopkins's poetry, Martin shows, with its binding of the visual to the audible through diacritical marks, demands a level of visual attention in addition to oral recitation to fully invoke the power of his innovative sprung rhythm. In 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', the eye, 'held by the yoke of a visible rhythm' (p.

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