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The term rhythm refers to any wavelike reccurence motion or sound. In poetry, it is the natural rise and fall of language brought about by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. In some patterns, rhythm is irregular. Often, the change in rhythm emphasizes the words involved as in the following poem.
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
rhythm or beat
Motif, random, regular, identical, and equal.
A beat is a regularly recurring pulse or stress point in the music, over which the melodic rhythm is overlaid. The essence of rhythmic music is a pulse which recurs at regular intervals, usually interspersed with lesser pulses which equally subdivide the time between the greater pulses. A march rhythm might be set up by having a pulse followed .5 seconds later with a lesser pulse, then the greater pulse .5 seconds later and so on. Each of these greater and lesser pulses is called a beat. Not all music emphasizes the beats; in some, the placement of the beats must be implied from the rhythm of the melody or melodies.