Sprung Rhythm Definition
noun
A kind of rhythm in English poetry, based on the normal rhythms of speech and made up of a mixture of feet, each foot consisting of either a single stressed syllable or a stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables.
Webster's New World
Origin of Sprung Rhythm
Coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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