rocking rhythm

noun

Prosody.

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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First recorded in 1880–85

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My steps make a rocking rhythm.

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

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

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

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

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