“What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“To begin with, the basis of English poetry is rhythm, or, as some would prefer to call it, cadence. This rhythm is obtained by mingling stressed and unstressed syllables.”
Preface to Irradiations; Sand and Spray, 1915
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