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Technically, this could be considered a list as in, Christos cried, rolled over, and bawled some more., but since most aspiring writers simply like the three-beat rhythm, I prefer to talk about it as a separate sentence type.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The dreaded Frankenstein manuscript, part IX: and? And? And? 2010
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He described the way Mr. Hancock negotiated the relationship between four-beat and three-beat rhythms.
A Jazz Mission Statement Larry Blumenfeld 2010
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Technically, this could be considered a list as in, Christos cried, rolled over, and bawled some more., but since most aspiring writers simply like the three-beat rhythm, I prefer to talk about it as a separate sentence type.
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Pentameter, so called, if you listen to it with an open ear, is a slow kind of gently swaying three-beat minuetto.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Pentameter, so called, if you listen to it with an open ear, is a slow kind of gently swaying three-beat minuetto.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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The repeated three-beat has the force of some abject faith, a desperate kind of will toward magic and accident.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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But she does, growing muscles like knots in her back, adapting her kick from the standard three-beat to a lightning-quick eight-beat flutter, better suited for her weak legs.
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The repeated three-beat has the force of some abject faith, a desperate kind of will toward magic and accident.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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But she does, growing muscles like knots in her back, adapting her kick from the standard three-beat to a lightning-quick eight-beat flutter, better suited for her weak legs.
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The repeated three-beat has the force of some abject faith, a desperate kind of will toward magic and accident.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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