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Rhythm Defined

An essential of all poetry, the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem as determined by the arses and theses of the metrical feet, i.e., the rise and fall of stress. The measure of rhythmic quantity is the meter.
Sidelight: A rhythmic pattern in which the accent falls on the final syllable of each foot, as in the iamb or anapest, is called a rising or ascending rhythm; a rhythmic pattern with the accent occurring on the first syllable of each foot, as in the dactyl or trochee, is a falling or descending rhythm.
Sidelight: From an easy lilt to the rough cadence of a primitive chant, rhythm is the organization of sound patterns the poet has created for pleasurable reading.
(See also Ictus, Modulation, Sprung Rhythm)
(Compare Caesura)

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  • Cover Story: Being James Brown : Rolling Stone: "James Brown is, like Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut' s Slaughterhouse -Five, a man unstuck in time. Indeed, it may be the case that James Brown is often confused as to what moment in time he occupies at any given moment. Practically, this means two things. It means that sometime around 1958 -- approximately the year he began voyaging in time, if my theory is correct -- James Brown began browsing through the decades ahead -- Sixties, Seventies, Eighties and perhaps even into the Nineties -- and saw, or, more correctly, heard, the future of music. This, if my theory is correct, explains the stubbornly revolutionary cast of his musical efforts from that time on, the way he single-handedl y seemed to be trying to impart an epiphany to which only he had easy access, an epiphany to do with rhythm, and with the kinetic possibilities inherent but to that point barely noticed in the R&B and soul music around him." by Jonathan Lethem
  • Le Fou MySpace: Our myspace
  • Le Fou web: We are a underground band borne in Barcelona (Spain). Moved between personal pop rock, dance rhythms, mathematic guitars or even post hardcore etiquette. It is, therefore, not an easy work to make a classification of our music project. The songs are composed with rich details thanks to the obsessive labour in our composition work by us.
  • Ray Charles - Brother Ray Rocks Rhythm & Blues - By Licorice Pizza

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