...for Sedgwick's correlation between spanking and poetry. Richards argues that the pleasure of meter is "not due to our perceiving a pattern in something...metre a tide of anticipation in us turns and swings . . . the pattern itself is a vast cyclic agitation spreading all over the body, a tide of excitement...

...all the variously fated expectancies which make up rhythm a definite temporal pattern and its effort is not due to our perceiving a pattern in something...becoming patterned ourselves. With every beat of the meter a tide of anticipation in us turns and swings, setting up as it does so extraordinarily extensive...

...Other Essays [New York: Dell. 1970]. 5). See also IA Richards on the effect of rhythm: "Its effect is not due to our perceiving a pattern in something...outside us. but to our becoming patterned ourselves" (quoted in Paul Fussell, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, rev. ed. [New York: McGraw Hill, 1979], 5)....