Sprung rhythm is an irregular system of prosody that was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins in the 19th century. It is based on the number of stressed syllables in a line and permits an indeterminate number of unstressed syllables. In sprung rhythm verse, each foot may consist of one stressed syllable and any number of unstressed syllables, creating a flexible and intense verse.
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