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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

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