oscillator is a type of motion that has a basic pattern which is repeated at regular intervals.
this is a type of motion that has a basic pattern which is repeated at regular intervals?
oscillator
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critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for "why" the language is pleasurable, and "how" byron achieved this effect. the lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for each line. a poem having a regular rhythm (not all poems do) is said to follow a certain meter. in "the destruction of sennacherib", each line has the basic pattern of two unstressed syllables followed by a third stressed syllable, with this basic pattern being repeated four times in a line. those basic patterns are called feet, and this particular pattern (weak weak strong) is called an anapest. a line with four feet is said to be in tetrameter ("", from the greek for four). this poem has a pleasurable and appropriate rhythm, and that rhythm has a name: this poem is written in "anapestic tetrameter". (this process of analyzing a poem's rhythms is called scansion.) the poem also rhymes (not all poems do), and the rhymes follow a pattern (they do not have to). in this case, the rhymes come right next to each other, which emphasizes them, and therefore emphasizes the sound, the physical nature, of the language. the effect of the poem's language derives in part from byron's choice of an appropriate pattern of rhyme (or rhyme scheme): these adjacent, rhyming lines are called couplets. the sound, the physical nature, of the language is also emphasized by alliteration, as in the repetition of "s" sounds in the third line: "and the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea".
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