A certain ambiguity of rhythm is one of the beauties of a poem

Poetry's only crucial attribute is rhythm. This is its heartbeat.This makes it memorable. If the rhythm falters , then the poem dies of heart failure.

What good poetry and good prose have in common is vitality of rhythm .

These elements — rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity — can inevitably be identified within whatever is proclaimed 'poetry.'

The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.

Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse.

To begin with, the basis of English poetry is rhythm, or, as some would prefer to call it, cadence. This rhythm is obtained by mingling stressed and unstressed syllables.

Harmony, rhythm, concision, concinnity are all elements that are epitomized in poetry. Cultivated in poetry, which is the nucleus of the creative impulse, these elemetns serve every art form: acting a character, writing a novel, creating music, dance, sculpture, painting."

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body , one at a time, in a particular order.

A poem therefore is to be defined as a structure of words whose sound constitutes a rhythmical unity, complete in itself, irrefragable, unanalyzable, completing its symbolic references within the ambit of its sound effects.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

The meanings of poetry take their growth through the interaction of the images and the music of the poem. The music is not the rhythm, which is a representation of life, alone. The music involves the interplay of the sounds of words, the length of the sequences, the keeping and breaking of rhythms, and the repetition and variation of syllables unrhymed and rhymed. It also involves the play of ideas and images.

The rhythm of poetry and the routine of work are interdependent for some poets