sprung rhythm
sprung rhythm
Definition
sprung rhythm
noun
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 or more unstressed syllables
Etymology: term coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Browse dictionary entries near sprung rhythm
- sprung
- sprue
- spruce pine
- spruce grouse
- spruce beer
- spruce
- sprout
- sprocket
- spritzer
- spritz
- spry
- spud
- spue
- spume
- spumescent
- spumoni
- spun
- spun glass
- spun silk
- spun sugar
