释义
n.
a poetic metre approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones
跳跃韵律，跳跃式格律（与正常讲话的自然节奏相似的韵律，每一音步的重读音节后接不定数的非重读音节）。
词源
" late 19th cent.: coined by G. M. Hopkins, who used the metre. "