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Two students debated the syllabic rhythm in the last two lines of “Paradise Lost.”

The Americas, in turn, received the wheel, the horse, sugar, wheat, livestock, a syllabic script and, of course, rice.

Her writing is diaristic in the sense that it doesn’t always hew to a clean syllabic structure — sometimes she’s cramming words to make them fit, and sometimes she’s lingering over them as if humbled.

The track is assembled from an old rap by a lately silent Kendrick Lamar and a frenetic syllabic fusillade from Busta Rhymes, both of them showing how wildly a flow can metamorphose.

Trump’s behavior is hardly new, and his words, though often a syllabic tangle of wandering logic, haven’t suddenly become offensive.