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| | RHYTHM - LoveToKnow Article on RHYTHM |
 | | Rhythm in Verse.Professor Jakob Minor has adduced a figure, valuable in helping us to realize what poetic rhythm is, when he remarks that to strike a bell twelve times, at exactly equal intervals, is to produce what may be called, indeed, a rhythmic effect, but not to awaken anything resembling the sensation of poetical rhythm. |
| | In speaking of rhythm, it is customary to think of the formal rules which govern the fixed cadence of feetin poetry, but there is also a rhythm in prose, which imitates the measured movements of the body in stately speech. |
| | According to Renan, the rhythm of the ancient poetry of the Hebrews is solely founded on this prose movement, which differs, in fact, from that of modern European poetry merely in its undefined and indeterminate character. |
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