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词汇 sprung rhythm
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Definition of sprung rhythm in English:

sprung rhythm

noun
mass noun
  • A poetic metre approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones.

    跳跃韵律,跳跃式格律(与正常讲话的自然节奏相似的韵律,每一音步的重读音节后接不定数的非重读音节)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In referring to the music he says in a letter of June 1880: ‘I wish I could pursue music; for I have invented a new style, something standing to ordinary music as sprung rhythm to common rhythm: it employs quarter tones.’
    • Hopkins says this sonnet is in sprung rhythm with ‘a rest of one stress in the first line.’
    • His translations are unrhymed, elegant, and lucid; his use of stressed and unstressed syllables had, he believed, something in common with G. M. Hopkins's sprung rhythm.
    • ‘The Valentine's Day’ uses sprung rhythm and alliteration much in the manner of Gerard Manley Hopkins, although he is not Kimmelman's primary model.

Origin

Late 19th century: coined by G. M. Hopkins, who used the metre.

Definition of sprung rhythm in US English:

sprung rhythm

nounsprəNG ˈriT͟Həm
  • A poetic meter approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones.

    跳跃韵律,跳跃式格律(与正常讲话的自然节奏相似的韵律,每一音步的重读音节后接不定数的非重读音节)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hopkins says this sonnet is in sprung rhythm with ‘a rest of one stress in the first line.’
    • In referring to the music he says in a letter of June 1880: ‘I wish I could pursue music; for I have invented a new style, something standing to ordinary music as sprung rhythm to common rhythm: it employs quarter tones.’
    • His translations are unrhymed, elegant, and lucid; his use of stressed and unstressed syllables had, he believed, something in common with G. M. Hopkins's sprung rhythm.
    • ‘The Valentine's Day’ uses sprung rhythm and alliteration much in the manner of Gerard Manley Hopkins, although he is not Kimmelman's primary model.

Origin

Late 19th century: coined by G. M. Hopkins, who used the meter.

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