Running Rhythm in having or being only one nominal rhythm, a mixed or 'logaoedic' one, instead of three, but on the other hand in having twice the flexibility of foot, so that any two stresses may either follow one another running or be divided by one, two, or three slack syllables. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
In Sprung Rhythm, as in logaoedic rhythm generally, the feet are assumed to be equally long or strong and their seeming inequality is made up by pause or stressing. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
And hence Sprung Rhythm differs from Running Rhythm in having or being only one nominal rhythm, a mixed or logaoedic one, instead of three, but on the other hand in having twice the flexibility of foot, so that any two stresses may either follow one another running or be divided by one, two, or three slack syllables. From Wordnik.com. [Authors Preface] Reference
((Anapaestic logaoedic.). From Wordnik.com. [Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets] Reference
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