Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...poetry of the last number of the Yale Record is unusually good. "Vacation" might have been written by Edgar Fawcett, and the rhythm of "Madelina" is worthy of Poe, if it is not imitated from him. We clip the following, which is not poetry, but fiction...
...there any differences between prose and poetry other than those of rhythm and metre...
Borne on the mists of thy rhythm-moved...
...they tolled in holy rhythm...
...tremble before the scientific knowledge of the Berkleyan. One of its poets comes out this month with a poem on the Mauvaises Terres, and freely slings in flowing rhythm such terms as "Cenozoic twilight," "sutured skull," and "circumambient walls . . . . with alkaloid surcharged." Now, we can understand such an expression as "sepulchral tomb," - indeed, the meaning is only too plain, - but when it comes to "Oreodon" and "Titanotherium," - if this goes on, new metres will have to be devised with special reference to the scientific dictionary. We recommend this poem as a syllabus to all who elect Natural History...