poetic rhythm

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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 Saintsbury, George

Herein lies the whole art of versification, the whole psychology of poetic rhythm, the whole problem of metrical study and investigation.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin