Rhythm

Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμόςrhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") may be generally defined as a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions." This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time may be applied to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or frequency of anything from microseconds to millions of years.

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    It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    Our choice is clear,
    we may share
    your choice,
    declare
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    in each daily act.
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    Great is the art,
    Great be the manners, of the bard.
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    “Pass in, pass in,” the angels say,
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)