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A-Z: General definitions: Rocking
Definition
A name given by Gerard Manley Hopkins to an unusual metre in which a stressed syllable is surrounded by an unstressed on either side.
The particular measurement in a line of poetry, determined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (in some languages, the pattern of long and short syllables). It is the measured basis of rhythm.
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