Unlocking the Secret Symphony: How Rhythmic Writing Transforms Language into Music
“Democracy was another subject of his — he had pronounced and aggravating views on what the United States was doing for the world.”
Notice how the repetition of the hard consonants—d, p, g and v—add a different kind of rhythm, a harder, less flowing but more drum-like beat. It creates a different engagement in our impression of the man compared with that of the woman he describes.
A great example of how varying sentence length within a paragraph, as well as the suggestive use of certain words, can be found in Ocean Vuong’s autobiographical novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous:
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