Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. What does Poe mean when he says that poetry is “the rhythmical creation of beauty”?

Poe’s phrase means that poets create beauty through the arrangement of sounds and rhythm in a poem. Choice D captures this idea: poets arrange sounds to give readers an experience of beauty. The phrase does not mean that formal structures are the only source of poetic beauty, as choice A claims.

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