The second movement is in "siciliano", or rocking rhythm, similar to the pastoral slow movements of Symphonies 27 and B.
The reason is that out of a similar language, similar rhythms and cadences develop.
In particular, the science of chaos has shown that these apparently disparate systems show broadly similar rhythms that are neither completely random nor absolutely regular.
A homophonic texture is also homorhythmic (or uses a "very similar rhythm").
At a convenient juncture, she took a break and played similar rhythms with drumsticks on an old leather suitcase.
The students performed the two exercises involving similar rhythms, with colored notation being applied randomly to either the first or second task.
He could still hear just enough of the rhythmic noises to start his mind moving in a similar rhythm.
Many other animals such as the vertebrates, display similar rhythms.
Popov got his body into a rhythm similar to that of Buttermilk's and kept pace with him.
The pattern has a similar rhythm to that of the son clave, but the second note on the two-side is delayed by one pulse (subdivision).