rocking rhythm

American  

noun

Prosody.

1. a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of one accented syllable between two unaccented ones.

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Etymology

Origin of rocking rhythm

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

For most freestyle swimmers, breathing disrupts a stroke, the head turns upsetting balance and rocking rhythm.

From Washington Post

Its rocking rhythm cradles a plaintive, folklike melody swathed in lush strings and horns.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Aunt Kate,” I whispered some time later as the rocking rhythm of the train lulled us not to sleep, but to some tense, contemplative place.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

His mother rocked and gurgled and rushed, and then she found some local point of stability and settled into a soft rocking rhythm.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory

The rocking rhythm of the line is the rhythm of his fevered pulse.

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor