Traditional heterosexual marriage imposed an obligation of the wife to be sexually available for her husband and an obligation of the husband to provide material/financial support for the wife.
In music, rhythm is a result of a timed sequence that follows a steady beat. In other common musical terms it is also referred to as ritmo (Italian), rythme (French) and Rhythmus (German). Frequently, the term rhythm is used synonymously or interchangeably with tempo, but their meanings are not exactly the same.
The Sound of Rhythm. Rhythm in English poetry comes from the variation between stressed and unstressed syllables. The normal beat of English has a fairly predictable time interval between accents or stressed syllables. The unit of poetic rhythm is called a foot and consists of an unaccented syllable or syllables and one accented syllable.