rhythmus
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The sound of the words, the accumulation of rhymes, and the rhythmus of the verse, form, as it were, the hollow music of a dreary witch-dance.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
All poetry is made by the ear, which must be the sole judge—it is a sort of musical rhythmus.
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Thomas Moore
I rendered it from the French version, preserving the rhythmus and the measure of the original.”
From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring
Even the irregularities of Shakspeare's versification are expressive; a verse broken off, or a sudden change of rhythmus, coincides with some pause in the progress of the thought, or the entrance of another mental disposition.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
They register less completely, it seems to me, because the departure is too sudden in the rhythmus of the artist.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
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