Word: rhythmic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...With a rhythmic, even flow...
Athwart the gleaming cliffs the sea-mews screech. Four streams, down-trickling from an azure lake, Mid rocks and ferns a rhythmic rippling make...
...Yale Courant has blossomed out in a most gorgeous, patent, back-action poem, with a button-hole attachment. It is entitled " All on a Summer's Day"; but the caption is delusive, for we find no rhythmic suggestion of the boom-jing-jing. It begins with forty lines of descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...