A musician, obligatorily, needs to understand rhythm to compose good music. For that, he must know, even instinctively, what beat and tempo are. Only then he will be able to differentiate the countless possible frequencies and the effects he can achieve with each one of them in his composition. Some say there is poetry without rhythm. There are, without a doubt, verses of terrible quality. And even if the poet wants to dispense the most important element to differentiate a poetic composition from prose or spoken language, I believe it is impossible to deny how much knowledge of rhythm would add to his arsenal of expressive effects. Well… To understand rhythm, in poetry, the poet must understand metrics and, consequently, the counting of poetic syllables. There is no other way: the poet who does not understand the syllable counting will never be able to understand what quantity is and what relationship the tonic syllables maintain with the non-accentuated ones at regular intervals. Thus, he will never know what rhythm is and will end up composing verses that do not please the ear. I ask: is the poetry that the ear repels good?
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