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This was also a time when the medical profession widely believed that disease was "unrhythmical" while health was "rhythmical".

From The Guardian • May 22, 2013

W. B. Yeats found Eliot's poems flat, unrhythmical, colorless, "working without apparent imagination."

From Time Magazine Archive

To teach a person to read prose well, even in his own language, is difficult, partly because he has seldom heard prose well read, though he is constantly hearing prose around him, intonated, but unrhythmical.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen

Since the critics would not admit that any unrhythmical prose is poetry, it is little wonder that Baudelaire founded as a distinct and conscious form the composition he called "poem in prose."

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

I use the word "unrhythmical" merely to designate such prose where the rhythm is not marked.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert