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	Gerard Manley Hopkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hopkins called this structure running rhythm, and though he wrote some of his early verse in running rhythm he became fascinated with the older rhythmic structure of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, of which Beowulf is the most famous example.
		Sprung rhythm is structured around feet with a variable number of syllables, generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falling on the first syllable in a foot.
		Hopkins saw sprung rhythm as a way to escape the constraints of running rhythm, which he said inevitably, pushed poetry written in it to become "same and tame." In this way, Hopkins can be seen as anticipating much of free verse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins (1377 words)

	Author’s Preface. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems
		Common English rhythm, called Running Rhythm above, is measured by feet of either two or three syllables and (putting aside the imperfect feet at the beginning and end of lines and also some unusual measures, in which feet seem to be paired together and double or composite feet to arise) never more or less.
		Sprung Rhythm, as used in this book, is measured by feet of from one to four syllables, regularly, and for particular effects any number of weak or slack syllables may be used.
		In Sprung Rhythm, as in logaoedic rhythm generally, the feet are assumed to be equally long or strong and their seeming inequality is made up by pause or stressing.
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	Sprung rhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech.
		It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables.
		However, while sprung rhythm allows for an indeterminate number of syllables to a foot, Hopkins was very careful to keep the number of feet he had per line consistent across each individual work, a trait that free verse does not share.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sprung_Rhythm (201 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Hexameter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iambic rhythms are quite easy to write in English and iambic pentameter is among the most common metrical forms in English poetry.
		Several attempts were made in the 19th century to naturalise the dactylic hexameter to English, by Longfellow, Arthur Hugh Clough and others, none of them particularly successful.
		Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote many of his poems in six foot iambic and sprung rhythm lines.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hexameter (1004 words)

	Gerard Manley Hopkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopkins was born in London of Welsh ancestry.
		The Reintroduction of Sprung Rhythm to English Verse
		This Spring Rhythm is structured around feet with a variable number of syllables, generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falls on the first syllable in a foot.
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	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His theory of sprung rhythm (contained in the Preface to his Poems) is complicated, perhaps because he felt he had to justify himself to rather academic metricists like his friend Robert Bridges.
		In fact he was reviving the rhythm of Old English alliterative verse (he cites Langland's Piers%20Plowman">Piers Plowman as being in sprung rhythm) and in folk poetry including many ballads and nursery rhymes.
		In sprung rhythm the number of stresses in each line is regular, but they do not occur at regular intervals, nor do the lines have a uniform number of syllables.
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	Annotation: Hopkins' Sprung Rhythm and the Life of English Poetry
		One link in Hopkins' mind might have been between sprung rhythm and Old English verse, but Hopkins' writings (primarily letters to Robert Bridges and Richard Watson Dixon) reveal that while he ultimately came to believe that the two were linked, he does not speak of Old English verse as a source for sprung rhythm.
		Similarly, Hopkins cites examples of sprung rhythm in later works, such as that of Milton and Shakespeare, but he never refers to them as sources for his discovery of sprung rhythm.
		In conclusion, Ong notes that the best way to understand sprung rhythm is not to think of it as a measurement system or analyze it as a measurement system but simply to listen to it since it is so directly linked to ordinary speech.
	homepages.udayton.edu /~youngkbr/annhopkinssprung.htm (424 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Breaking of Style
		Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, her masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work.
		Gerard Manley Hopkins' invention of sprung rhythm marks a dramatic break with his early style.
		Rhythm, Vendler shows us, is at the heart of Hopkins' aesthetic, and sprung rhythm is his symbol for danger, difference, and the shock of the beautiful.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/VENBRE.html (384 words)

	Sprung Rhythm in Hopkins' "Wreck of the Deutschland" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sprung Rhythm in Hopkins' "Wreck of the Deutschland"
		This complex logaoedic rhythm, is a mix of meters and Hopkins actually writes in his preface that in using this rhythm each stanza of this poem takes on a concentrated and dense quality:
		I found that in reading Hopkins the rhythm played a very heavy part in the denseness of the meaning, often forcing me to slow down with deliberately cumbersome wording.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/hopkins/hay11.html (445 words)

	Sprung rhythm: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gerard manley hopkins (july 28, 1844 - june 8, 1889) was a british victorian eravictorian poet and jesuit priest, whose verse has been...
		The english language is a west germanic language that originated in england from old english (anglo-saxon), the language of the anglo-saxons of northern...
		Free verse (or vers libre) is a style of poetry that is based on cadences that are more irregular than those of traditional poetic meter....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/sprung_rhythm.htm (762 words)

	Sprung - webinforsearch.com Info About Sprung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - What is Sprung rhythm ?
		I think sprung rhythm is to poetry what throwing paint at the wall is to art, insofar as you're either Gerald Manley Hopkins or Jackson Pollock or it isn't.
		In sprung rhythm, it means beginning a foot at the end of one line and finishing it with one or more syllables at the start of the next line.
		Sprung rhythm is, as Harry suggests, really an attempt to combine an accentual metric (where only stressed syllables per line are counted) with accentual-syllabic (usually iambic pentameter) metric, as bizarre as that sounds.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10077 (1523 words)

	PROSODY
		Your Handy Guide to Diagnosing Meter and Rhythm: This is a technique that has proved effective for me in scanning verse; you may have developed your own, or may develop your own in the future, but in the meantime, this may help you to approach the sticky job of determining meter and rhythm.
		A related approach is sprung rhythm, where only the stressed syllables count; in sprung rhythm, you might have a seven-syllable line and a ten-syllable line, but the lines will be consistent in having five stressed syllables.
		This is a very old approach to poetic rhythm in English, going all the way back to Anglo-Saxon verse, but it’s notoriously difficult to scan; in fact, Gerard Manley Hopkins, who coined the phrase “sprung rhythm,” often used accent marks to indicate where the stresses should fall.
	www.humboldt.edu /~me2/engl120/prosody.html (1164 words)

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		Sprung declamation produces "frustrated accents," whose latent energy is shifted down to the next text-music rhythmic coincidence; it gives the line a floating quality by reducing the number of accents and makes it drive ahead toward the highly emphasized points where spoken and musical rhythm are in correspondence.
		With this instance of slightly sprung declamation (heavily accenting both "three" and "maids" contradicts the normal "hypermetric" accentuation of Gilbert's four-stress poetic line) the conflict between upbeat and downbeat positioning of Sullivan's rhythmic motive is both heightened and finally resolved—from this point on, as Gilbert's text demands, all the stanzas employ downbeat phrasing.
		It also supports Sullivan's claim that he conceived rhythm before melodic shape: note that in the sketches for the quartet's opening, the rhythm is exactly that of the final piece, while the melodic material varies widely from Sullivan's eventual tune.
	www.sullivan-forschung.de /fink.htm (7435 words)

	Sprung Rhythm in Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is opposed specifically to "running" or "common" rhythm, and provides for feet of lengths varying from one syllable to four, with either "rising" or "falling" rhythm.
		But as with "inscape," sprung rhythm is the theoretical expression of a concern which had obssessed every nineteenth-century poet.
		Also characteristic of Hopkins was his need to back up his poetic practice by a theory which demonstrated the immanence of God in his poems.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/hopkins/hopkins13.html (91 words)

	Hopkins Template
		] that he was searching for it (the sprung rhythm) in particular, for The Occasions; he was of course referring to the genre of the motet, [...
		A technique based on sprung rhythm is a revolutionary one also because it represents a way to renew the tradition by starting within it and by unhinging it on the inside.
		He called it sprung rhythm, and claimed that it could be scanned metrically.
	www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org /lectures_2000/eugenio-montale.html (3577 words)

	What Sprung Rhythm Really Is (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nobody has had a precise understanding of what Hopkins intended by the term, and many commentators have acknowledged that sprung rhythm is not always to be distinguished from traditional rhythm.
		Hopkins's use of the paeon (a four-syllable foot, with the stress on any one of the four) has long been recognized, usually for the convenience of explaining any sequence of four syllables of which only one is stressed.
		Rarely, Hopkins has a stress followed by four slacks, but generally the 'first paeon' is the longest foot available to sprung rhythm.
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	Sprung Rhythm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A nasty hematoma had sprung up on his left cheek, the result of all those...
		We still use a traditional four piece on most of the gigs but Iâve been toying around with a virtual rhythm section and it donât sound half bad.
		He began showing up at the many rock 'n' roll revivals that sprung up in the Pittsburgh area.
	sprung-rhythm.wikiverse.org (279 words)

	Sprung Rhythm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to the rhythm of natural speech.
		It is from feet in which the first syllable stressed and may be followed by a number of unstressed syllables.
		The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins claimed to have discovered this previously-unnamed rhythm in the natural patterns of English in folk songs spoken poetry Shakespeare Milton et al.
	www.freeglossary.com /Sprung_Rhythm (310 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Faro (Petrarchan sonnet, sprung rhythm)
		I wouldn't claim something as sprung rhythm unless you are absolutely sure it can stand up against Gerard Manley Hopkins' verse in terms of the effects and rhythms he managed to create.
		With the Sprung Rhythm, well, Hopkins thought "The Windhover" was the best thing he'd ever written, so it stands to reason there were some other less-than-best, plus I'll wager he had a few first drafts.
		The long flowing rhythms of the octave of "The Windover," for instance, directly imitate the long flowing sweeps of the falcon as it glides for great distances, rising and falling on the currents of the wind.
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	The Alsop Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I am suggesting that a number of his arguments for Sprung Rhythm prefigure arguments for Free Verse, and in that sense, his arguments might be said to "lean towards" Free Verse.
		.is the rhythm of all but the most monotonously regular music to Pounds injunction: As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
		Rhythm implies some sort of regularly recurring patterns of stress, and artless prose often lumbers on in a way that simply can't be called rhythmical even though it is composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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	Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the case of free verse, the rhythm of lines is often organized into looser units of cadence.
		However, in the European tradition the earliest surviving poems, the Homeric and Hesiodic epics, identify themselves as poems to be recited or chanted to a musical accompaniment rather than as pure song.
		Another interpretation, developed from 20th century studies of living Montenegran epic reciters by Milman Parry and others, is that rhythm, refrains, and kennings are essentially paratactic devices that enable the reciter to reconstruct the poem from memory.
	poetry.ask.dyndns.dk (1767 words)

	Who was written in sprung rhythm? \| Ask MetaFilter
		Hopkin's sprung rhythm has some vague similarity to the form of Old English poetry (minus the alliteration and line-splitting).
		A lot of Bob Dylan sounds like sprung rhythm to me. For example: Masters of War, Tangled Up in Blue, and the talking blues songs.
		i think sprung rhythm has been a vague influence on some later poetry, but it's difficult to tell from free verse at times...
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	Sprung Rhythm
		T HE POEMS in this book 1 are written some in Running Rhythm, the common rhythm in English use, some in Sprung Rhythm, and some in a mixture of the two.
		The reasons for forsaking Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter, Hopkins' sprung rhythm, triple meters, falling duple meters, etc. here are both practical (time and space) and conceptual.
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	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Sprung_Rhythm (403 words)

	Poetic Rhythm
		Iambic and anapaestic are rising rhythm (rising to a stress), trochaic and dactylic as falling rhythm (falling from a stress) but few poems are wholly one or the other.
		The lines by Hopkins in the previous section could also be considered as sprung rhythm, the term he used for lines with a set number of stresses but a varying number of unstressed syllables.
		Lines in metrical and sprung rhythm can be described according to the number of feet or stresses.
	bfewster.members.gn.apc.org /prospoet/rhythm.htm (963 words)

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	SparkNotes: Hopkins's Poetry: "Spring and Fall" (1880)
		However, the source of this knowing sadness will be the same as that of her childish grief--for "sorrow's springs are the same." That is, though neither her mouth nor her mind can yet articulate the fact as clearly as her adult self will, Margaret is already mourning over her own mortality.
		The sing-song effect this creates in the first eight lines is complicated into something more uneasy in the last seven; the rhymed triplet at the center of the poem creates a pivot for this change.
		Hopkins' "sprung rhythm" meter (see the Analysis section of this SparkNote for more on "sprung rhythm") lets him orchestrate the juxtapositions of stresses in unusual ways.
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