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PRONUNCIATION OF SPRUNG RHYTHM

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPRUNG RHYTHM

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Sprung rhythm is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SPRUNG RHYTHM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sprung rhythm

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. The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins claimed to have discovered this previously unnamed poetic rhythm in the natural patterns of English in folk songs, spoken poetry, Shakespeare, Milton, et al. He used diacritical marks on syllables to indicate which should be drawn out and which uttered quickly. Some critics believe he merely coined a name for poems with mixed, irregular feet, like free verse. 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. Sprung rhythm may be classed as a form of accentual verse, due to its being stress-timed, rather than syllable-timed, and while sprung rhythm did not become a popular literary form, Hopkins's advocacy did assist in a revival of accentual verse more generally.

Definition of sprung rhythm in the English dictionary

The definition of sprung rhythm in the dictionary is a type of poetic rhythm characterized by metrical feet of irregular composition, each having one strongly stressed syllable, often the first, and an indefinite number of unstressed syllables.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SPRUNG RHYTHM

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Synonyms and antonyms of sprung rhythm in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sprung rhythm» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPRUNG RHYTHM

Find out the translation of sprung rhythm to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sprung rhythm from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sprung rhythm» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

跳跃韵律
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sprung rhythm
570 millions of speakers

English

sprung rhythm
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उछला ताल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إيقاع انتشرت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прыгали ритм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ritmo arqueadas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছাঁট ছায়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rythme suspendue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Irama sprung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Feder Rhythmus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バネ上のリズム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

꼬셔 리듬
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Irama sprung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhịp cong
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிதைந்த தாளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्प्रींग लय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yaylı ritim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ritmo molleggiato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wysklepione rytm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стрибали ритм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ritm arcuite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναρτημένης ρυθμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opgeskiet ritme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fjädrade rytm
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fjærende rytmen
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sprung rhythm

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRUNG RHYTHM»

Discover the use of sprung rhythm in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sprung rhythm and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hopkins's poetics of speech sound: sprung rhythm, lettering, ...
A well-researched and highly detailed book, Hopkins's Poetics of Speech Sound asserts major significance for a relatively neglected aspect of this important poet's writings.
James I. Wimsatt, 2006
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Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry
Saying as he does, "Sprung rhythm gives back to poetry its true soul and self," is very close to saying, "Inscape is the very soul of art," so that, putting them together, one may deduce that Hopkins intended inscape and sprung rhythm to be as ...
William Pratt, 1996
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
H. BRUNNER SPRUNG RHYTHM. G. M. Hopkins coined the term sprung rhythm to characterize the poetic rhythm that he used first in his great ode ”The Wreck of the Deutschland” and in numerous subsequent poems, incl. most of his best ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
H. BRUNNER SPRUNG RHYTHM. G. M. Hopkins coined the term sprung rhythm to characterize the poetic rhythm that he used first in his great ode “The Wreck of the Deutschland” and in numerous subsequent poems, incl. most of his best ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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Sound and Form in Modern Poetry
One kind of sprung rhythm results when the older stress metric intrudes upon the "prosodic norm," or conventional syllable-stress meter. This happens frequently in our poetry; a fine example is the line quoted earlier from Yeats: / tt tt Speech af  ...
Harvey Seymour Gross, Robert McDowell, 1996
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Poetry and Drama: Literary Terms and Concepts
Literary Terms and Concepts Kathleen Kuiper. can be seen as examples of primary and secondary stress rather than equal stress. In English verse, the spondaic foot is usually composed of two monosyllables. Sprung Rhythm Sprung rhythm ...
Kathleen Kuiper, 2011
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The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
My first example of the joys and risks in the breaking of style is the invention of sprung rhythm by the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), who, as is well known, wrote almost no poetry for seven years after he became a Jesuit , ...
Helen Hennessy Vendler, 1995
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World as Word: Philosophical Theology in Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkins was especially proud of sprung rhythm, the more radical of his two innovations, "having twice the flexibility of foot, so that any two stresses may either follow one another running or be divided by one, two or three slack syllables.
Bernadette Waterman Ward, 2002
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A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French ...
Although 'for particular effects' ('Author's Preface'), Hopkins allows that any number of syllables may follow the stressed one in sprung rhythm, he in fact, and purely to install some (arbitrary?) notion of regularity, limits sprung rhythm to feet of ...
Clive Scott, 1986
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
... to mark reversed or counterpointed rhythm. Note on the nature and history of Sprung RhythmSprung Rhythm is the most natural of things. For (1) it is the rhythm of common speech and of written prose, when rhythm is perceived in them.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Manley Hopkins Gerard, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPRUNG RHYTHM»

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Music review: RSNO Chamber Ensemble, Cottier's Theatre, Glasgow
... sense of balance between top and bottom of the texture, translucence around the viola lines, and a gently well-sprung rhythm, with a buoyant momentum. «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
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When Peter Walsh's rap career bottomed out, he turned to analysis.
that's the kind of sprung rhythm we get in Hopkins and some Heaney, by the way. [5] People might also ask whether some of the critical skimming is a good thing ... «Honi Soit, May 15»
3
Agenda for bishops' fall meeting includes discussion on family synod
... edition of the liturgy of the hours, the committee recommended improving the translation and its 'sprung rhythm' to facilitate easier proclamation and singing. «National Catholic Reporter, Nov 14»
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Liturgical items top agenda at bishops' general meeting in Baltimore
The USCCB Committee on Divine Worship recommended improving the translation and its “sprung rhythm” to make proclamation and singing easier. The fifth ... «Catholic San Francisco, Oct 14»
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Literary Editor, The Age
Stay home forever to garden words, pale-inked poems in a sober script and sprung rhythms. Black carriages arrive at the stepping-off place over the road. «Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 14»
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Gonzaga University to host conference on Jesuit philosopher Walter …
His thesis on "sprung rhythm" in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins was supervised by McLuhan, then a young Canadian. It is said McLuhan influenced Ong's ... «National Catholic Reporter, Feb 14»
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Grammys 2014: The full list of winners
Sprung Rhythm — Daniel Shores, surround mix engineer; Daniel Shores, surround mastering engineer; Dan Merceruio, surround producer (Richard Scerbo ... «National Post, Jan 14»
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Revolutionary poet Gerard Manley Hopkins asked God to rain upon …
I found the imagery too dense, too elaborate, and I didn't begin to understand his revolutionary practice of ''sprung rhythm''. Then, a few years ago, I stumbled on ... «The Age, Jan 14»
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The year's bounty of CDs: a readers' guide
A couple of D.C.-based commenters mentioned their own local groups. The chamber orchestra Inscape released “Sprung Rhythm”; “It's a terrific-sounding album ... «Washington Post, Dec 13»
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SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews
Sprung Rhythm” = NATHAN LINCOLN-DECUSATIS: A Collection of Sand; Chopin Syndrome; JOSEPH HALLMAN: Three Poems of Jessica Hornik; Imagined ... «Audiophile Audition, Oct 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Sprung rhythm [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sprung-rhythm>. Apr 2024 ».
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