Sprung rhythm
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'''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—
<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—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>—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
Proposed Scansion:
<br>
<br>|Glory|be to|God for|dappled|things—
<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—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]]
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