1. Gerard Manley Hopkins
One of his major innovations was a new metrical form, called "sprung rhythm." In sprung rhythm, the poet counts the number of accented syllables in the line, but places no limit on the total number of syllables. ... In general, sprung rhythm, as Hopkins claimed, is the most natural of things. He tabulated the reasons: (1) "It is the rhythm of common speech and of written prose, when rhythm is perceived in them... " (3) "It is found in nursery rhymes, weather saws, and so on; because, however these may have been once made in running rhythm, the terminations having dropped off by the cha...
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