The view that rhythm is vital to poetry is fallacious.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The attempt to establish such a condition too closely, seems to me to lead to a good many very edifying but not the less fallacious conclusions.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Once, for instance, he discovered in a sermon of Canon Liddon's this "fallacious employment of the name of a scientific conception," for which it was however added, the preacher "could find only too many scientific precedents."
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard