“Metre is to rhythm as eye is to ear.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet
'Vision and Resonance:Two senses of Poetic Form' OUP London 1975
“Rhythm includes metre, but metre is a relatively small part of rhythm.”
Anatomy of Poetry (1953)
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