The heart has its own little brains, so to speak,--small collections of nervous substance which govern its rhythmical motions under ordinary conditions.
I believe I have in April or May an annual poetic conatus rather than afflatus, experimenting to the length of thirty lines or so, if I may judge from the dates of the rhythmicalscraps I detect among my MSS.
It was a sharp prolonged rattle, continuous, but rising and falling as if in rhythmical cadence.
Listen carefully, and you will hear a queer rhythmical noise and the distant song of an engine.
It is hard to tell where the rhythmical prose passes into actual metre.
It is always difficult to mark where the style of a prophet passes from rhythmical prose into what we may justly call a metrical form.
It must not be manifestly in metre or in rhythm (for in that case it will be a poem or a lyric and will desert its own specific character), but it is enough that it should simply appear rhythmical and metrical.
To illustrate his meaning, Dionysius quotes, and gives a rhythmical analysis of, passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes.
It requires its periods to march as with steps regulated by line and rule, and to close with a rhythmical fall.
The passage that begins here is, itself, a good example of rhythmical and melodious writing.
As each word has a rhythmical value (great or small) which cannot be changed, all depends on the skill with which we arrange the words at our disposal so as to blend artistically the inferior with the better.
The word is specially used of a measured step or metrical movement,—of a rhythmical clause in a period and particularly of its rhythmical close (Lat.
It is this kind of ‘rhythmus’ that counts in rhythmical prose.
But we cannot help thinking that if Shakespeare be the most comprehensive intellect, so Dante is the highest spiritual nature that has expressed itself in rhythmical form.
And quite out of date, too, is rhythmical metre; The critics declare it an insult to art.
The Wind and the Trees fell to talking together; And nothing they said was didactic or terse; But everything spoken was told in unbroken And beautiful rhyming and rhythmical verse.
They are not songs, but chants, whose purpose is to give accentuation and force to the exertion of united strength rather than to the expression of sentiment, and of which the rhythmical melody is the essential element.
The rhythmical fulness and poise of his periods are remarkable.
He has been able to demonstrate that these rhythmical oscillations occur in nearly all the Swiss Lakes (he studied the phenomena in nine of them), and that they follow in all cases the same general laws.
Perhaps these lakes may be too large to manifest the uninodal rhythmical oscillations which have been so successfully studied by Forel in the smaller lakes of Switzerland.
From inquiries made of the inhabitants of the shores of Lake Tahoe, I was not able to discover that any rhythmical oscillations of the level of its waters have ever been noticed.
Rhythmical Variations of Level in Lakes: or "Seiches.
The inhabitants of the shores of the Lake of Geneva have long designated this rhythmical oscillation of the level of the water by the term of Seiche; and this designation has been adopted by scientific writers.
Ritual gains further strength when it is rhythmical, and is connected with music, verse, or otherrhythmical arts.
Acts are ritually repeated at the recurrence of the rhythmical points.
If he has little of the passion or fluency of Swinburne, he has some of his phrase-making skill, and he is free from that rhythmical lilt which in Swinburne was often excessive.
An angry hand rang a full peal, whilst heavy boots beat rhythmical imprecations upon the gate.
Sometimes there was silence, and nothing was to be heard save the sound of steps asrhythmical as a heavy shower.
Here the purely rhythmical movement, so to speak, celebrates its orgies; and it is consequently impossible to take these movements too quick.
Everything is luminous, reflecting his inner happiness: It is as though he were listening to the very tones emitted by the phenomena, that move, aerial and again firm, in rhythmical dance before him.
This character is distinctly contrasted with that of the alternating Andante in triple time; but our conductors invariably contrive to obliterate the difference, leaving only the rhythmical change between square and triple time.
Figure: musical example] is used in rhythmical diminution as the first half of the second theme, and is answered in the other half, by a soft and smooth countermotive.
This rhythmical accentuation must become a second nature to the learner before he can express any particular sentiment in a piece of music, and therefore he must be early practised in it.
Rhythmical accentuation can always be employed very differently according to the character (Stimmung) of a composition, and the most different effects in expression are thus produced.
Let the same phrase in a song be sung with different rhythmical accents, and we may easily see how such changes will give the passage quite another character.
Rhythmical poetry must needs be in verse of some sort, but verse need not be poetry.
There is a certain department of verse-writing in which a cultivated class like the clergy would of necessity make its mark--that of rhythmical translation.
Hallam Tennyson has shown, in a rhythmical version of a nursery tale, that some measure of poetic faculty has been meted out to him.
It is easy to understand how this fondness for the rhythmical was fostered by the aforesaid parental admiration, and how it was still further increased by the boy's admiration, successively, for Scott and Byron.
Our early clerical versifiers set themselves rather to give rhythmical renderings to the romances and chronicles of their time.
But notwithstanding its deafening shrillness, it has greatrhythmical power; and after all it only sounds harsh to us on account of its complexity.
Korean dancing, on account of its dignity and calm, is by far the most plastic and rhythmical of all Oriental worship of Terpsichore.
It consists in stimulating the respiratory reflex by regular rhythmical traction of the tongue, which should be vigorously pulled forward fifteen or eighteen times a minute, to correspond in frequency to the normal respiration.
The whole limb is moved at once and not separate muscles, and the movement is a large, rhythmical one, slow and co-ordinated, not at all suggestive of tremor.
Sometimes there follows a general tremor which may last a few hours or for days, and occasionally a clonic rhythmical spasm of one or more extremities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhythmical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: even; intermittent; measured; regular; rhythmic; rhythmical
