What is "rhythmus"

Usage examples of "rhythmus".

Aber gut war sie nicht, diese enge Gefangenschaft, nicht gut fuer die Gedanken und den Rhythmus des Blutes, aus dem die Gedanken kamen.

There is a peculiar rhythmus in many of our airs, and a necessity of adapting syllables to the emphasis, or what I would call the feature-notes of the tune, that cramp the poet, and lay him under almost insuperable difficulties.

I will admit, that, by comparison with the Roman model of Cicero, there is seldom the same artful prefiguration of the oration throughout its future course, or the same sustained rhythmus and oratorial tone.