Metrum: sprung-rhythm
Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows | flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-
Built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs | they throng; they glitter in marches.
Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, | wherever an elm arches,
Shivelights and shadowtackle ín long | lashes lace, lance, and pair.
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The nineteenth-century British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, in his variable accentual prosody, which he called sprung rhythm, […] paid no attention to keeping only a certain number of stresses to the line, but he overstressed his heavily accented lines with all sorts of sonic devices including alliteration, assonance, rhyme […], repetition, vocalic and consonantal echo; […]
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