falling rhythm

American  

noun

Prosody.

1. a rhythmic pattern created by the succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable followed by one or more unaccented syllables.

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Etymology

Origin of falling rhythm

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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falling rhythm

There is, however, no absolute contrast between the two kinds, because a falling rhythm is still a rhythm, and that means a movement which necessarily contains something of instability and unrest.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker

Bells loud and soft,—bells mellow and deep, clear and silvery—clanging in bass and treble shocks of rising and falling rhythm and tune!

From The Secret Power by Marie Corelli

He shuts his dazed eyes, and even the falling rhythm of his horse's hoofs beats out, "There is a God! there is a God!" from the silent earth on which they strike.

From Jess by Henry Rider Haggard

For Tennyson's The Higher Pantheism is chiefly in triple falling rhythm, but it begins The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains.

From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum

All day long she talked to him, or at him, or of him, and at night he fell asleep to the rising and falling rhythm of what she thought about him. 

From Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome