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Q J Med 2002; 95: 555-556
© 2002 Association of Physicians

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Rhythms of life

John Launer

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Without a doubt, the school teacher who had the most profound effect on me was my sixth form English teacher. He had the ability to excite enthusiasm for the kind of knowledge that at first seems innately boring. So I came away from his lessons with, among other things, a lifelong fascination with poetic metre and rhythm.

Metre and rhythm, he taught, are not the same. Metre is the implacable drum beat that underlies any piece of verse (excepting some modern . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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