Literary notes about Rhythm (AI summary)
In some literary works, authors render rhythm with the vividness of a hue, painting sound and movement as if they were colors visible to the eye. For instance, Sellar’s description of the “ocean‐roll of rhythm” [1] transforms the flow of epic verse into a deep, shifting color that imbues the text with dynamic, almost tangible fluidity. Similarly, a character’s movement is sometimes described in terms that suggest a visual quality—as when the changing sheen of a heavy seal cloak reveals a graceful rhythm in motion [2]. In another passage, the very movements and garment folds of a heroine are portrayed as floating around her like an artful wash of musical color, blending physical beauty with an ethereal, rhythmic tint [3]. Through such phrasings, rhythm is not merely an auditory or temporal quality, but an aesthetic one that saturates the narrative with a vibrant, painterly presence.
- Sellar. From the Saturnian he turned to the hexameter, whose "ocean-roll of rhythm" had resounded in the great epics of Homer.
— from Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller - The perfect grace and rhythm of movement could be seen even through the heavy seal cloak, whose sheen changed with each touch of her figure.
— from The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia by Dixon, Thomas, Jr. - Her beauty, and the rhythm of her movements and the folds of her garments, seemed to float around her like music.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn
