Isosyllabism

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Isosyllabism

an identical number of syllables in speech segments. Isosyllabism is used in prose (the isocolon) and especially in poetry, since it is, in particular, the basis of syllabic versification. Isosyllabism is usually accompanied by relative orderliness of other rhythm-forming elements (number of words, placement of stresses, and so on).

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But this isosyllabism also works as a device of modern

The poetry of disenchanted reenchantment (Leopardi, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Justice)

Speculating on the effect of disrupted isosyllabism on perceptions of poeticity leads Evans to assert the differential impact of predictable unpredictability and isolated rhythmic transgression.

Evans, David. Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme

It is possible that a form such as the adverbially employed neuter accusative (=nominative) ahar-ahah provided an inexact parallel which allowed the poet here, under the pressure of rhetorical responsion and isosyllabism, to avoid the ill-fitting *samidha-samidha by substituting a nominative singular samit-samit, albeit of a feminine noun.