Sprung rhythm 26911 210085155 2008-05-04T11:17:57Z 219.117.3.25 +[[ja:スプラング・リズム]] '''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 [[United Kingdom|British]] poet [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] claimed to have discovered this previously-unnamed poetic rhythm in the natural patterns of [[English language|English]] in folk songs, spoken [[poetry]], [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], [[John Milton|Milton]], ''et al.'' He used [[diacritic|diacritical]] marks on [[syllable]]s to indicate which should be drawn out (acute e.g. á ) and which uttered quickly (grave e.g. è ). 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. ==Example== <blockquote> Pied Beauty <br> <br>Glory be to God for dappled things&mdash; <br>For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; <br>For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; <br>Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; <br>Landscape plotted and pieced&mdash;fold, fallow, and plough; <br>And áll trades, their gear and tackle and trim. <br> <br>All things counter, original, spáre, strange; <br>Whatever is fickle, frecklèd (who knows how?) <br>With swíft, slów; sweet, sóur; adázzle, dím; <br>He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change: <br>Práise hím. <br> <br>&mdash;Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) </blockquote> <br> <blockquote> Proposed Scansion: <br> <br>|Glory|be to|God for|dappled|things&mdash; <br>For|skies of|couple-|colour as a|brinded|cow; <br>For|rose-moles|all in|stipple upon|trout that|swim; <br>Fresh-|firecoal|chestnut-|falls;|finches'|wings; <br>|Landscape|plotted and|pieced&mdash;fold,|fallow, and|plough; <br>And|áll|trades, their|gear and|tackle and|trim. <br> <br>|All things|counter, o|riginal,|spáre,|strange; <br>What|ever is|fickle,|frecklèd|(who knows|how?) <br>With|swíft,|slów; sweet,|sóur; a|dázzle,|dím; <br>He|fathers-|forth whose|beauty is|pást|change: <br>|Práise|hím.| <br> </blockquote> [[Category:Poetic form]] [[Category:Sonnet studies]] [[Category:Victorian poetry]] [[ja:スプラング・リズム]]