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noun

Rhythm n.

In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

(Mus.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.

A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.

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Etymology of 'Rhythm'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rhythm" Quotes from Famous Books

... dancing couples through the windows with the impotent yearning of the cripple; the voluptuous rhythm of the waltz thrilled him ...

— Married • August Strindberg

... beauty to the breaking-point. Archaic and bizarre words are pressed into service to help out the rhyme and metre; instead of melodic rhythm there are harsh and jolting combinations; until the reader brought up in the traditions of Shakespeare, Milton, and Tennyson, is fain to cry ...

— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning

... the author for not making his thirds and sevenths rhyme. As to the rhythm, it is not much better than what the French sang in the Calais theater when the Duke of Clarence[404] took over Louis ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... line came the first battalion of the Thirty-fourth—at its head Colonel North and Major Silsbee, with their respective staffs, all on horseback. And now behind them marched, with the precise, easy rhythm of the foot soldier, the four companies, A, B, C and D, all moving like so ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock

... two-twenty, the Pennington eleven trotted, unheralded, onto the field and, tossing off their blue Indian blankets, began to run through some snappy signal work, from the Pennington stands a mass of red and blue rose and fell in perfect rhythm to the tune of "The Warrior," Pennington's ...

— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman

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