sprung rhythm in English
noun
1
a poetic meter approximating speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones.
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.’
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1. Jeffers experimented with sprung rhythm as an alternative to Accentual rhythm
2. The whole effect is sprung rhythm, which was imitated by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-18 towards the end of the 19th century.