Repeated patterns of beats, sounds, or movements that create a sense of timing and flow, like in music or dance.
From Greek 'rhythmos' meaning flow or motion. The word came through Latin into English in the 1300s, originally describing the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Every living thing has rhythms—circadian rhythms in our bodies, tidal rhythms in oceans—so the Greeks used one word to describe both poetry and nature's cycles, recognizing something deeply connected!
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