Rhetoric & Prosody
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Gerard Manley Hopkins developed a unique poetic metre he called sprung rhythm. What is the fundamental principle that distinguishes sprung rhythm from conventional syllabic metres in Victorian poetry?
Choose the correct option.
A
Complete absence of any regular metre or rhythm
B
A fixed number of syllables per line
C
Lines measured by the number of stressed syllables with variable unstressed syllables
D
Strict alternation between stressed and unstressed syllables
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