Meaning of bodybeat | Babel Free

Definitions

One's natural biological rhythm, such as a heartbeat or the cadence of one's breathing.

poetic

Examples

“Rap-tap! drums of inundation, of syncopation And a bodybeat / an ideo-beep in ideophone / A drivinghome, a drive-suite Against the eternal mattress / the clay carpet Of eternal rhythm / of divine rhyme Flowing from feet / street Into sacred fingers”

“Consider the effects of simple rhythm and "bodybeat sounds" on newborn infants.”

“Never mind, she is me, you— tied to that bodybeat, fainting on the rack of blood, moving to the metronome- –empty, empty, empty.”

“They spied her out even ass she spied them, and, bodybeat to bodybeat, she and her mother met, shaking to silent sobs and twisting hearts.”

“She takes me through her own bodybeats, showing me how she channels them into her arms and voice and weaves them into charms.”

CEFR level