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9:   Rhythm is a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and
10:   unstressed syllables. Rhythm occurs in all forms of language, both
11-   written and spoken, but is particularly important in poetry
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13:   The most obvious king of rhythm is the regular repetition of stressed
14-   and unstessed syllables found in some poetry.
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16:   Writers also create rhythm by repeating words and phrases or even by
17-   repeating whole lines and sentences, as Walt Whitman does in "Song of
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29:   People often use a combination of two words to describe regular rhythm
30-   or meter. For example, you might refer to the meter of a sonnet as
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40:                  The most common units ("feet") of rhythm in English are:
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57-   everyday language, and because much American speech is iambic in
58:   pattern, the poetry shows a lot of iambic rhythm.
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61:   Rhythm (or "measure") in writing is like the beat in music. In poetry,
62:   rhythm implies that certain words are produced more force- fully than
63-   others, and may be held for longer duration. The repetition of a
64-   pattern of such emphasis is what produces a "rhythmic effect." The word
65:   rhythm comes from the Greek, meaning "measured motion."
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67:   In speech, we use rhythm without consciously creating recognizable
68-   patterns. For example, almost every telephone conversation ends
69:   rhythmically, with the conversants understanding as much by rhythm as
70-   by the meaning of the words, that it is time to hang up. Frequently
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84:   In poems, as in songs, a rhythm may be obvious or muted. A poem like
85-   Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo" consciously recreates the rhythms of a
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114-                                 [2]project
115:                                  [3]rhythm
116-                                  [4]rhyme
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126-   2. http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/finalproject.html
127:   3. http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhythm.html
128-   4. http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhyme.html