He wears a scholar's cap and gown; the latter of some chocolate-brown pile, richly patterned, and lined with brown fur.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
This is certainly very often true, but the rhythmical character of language in these cases is entirely different from that in verse, for in verse you have a patterned regular rhythm obeying an artificial law of accents, a continued series of rise and ebb of the voice that must not break down for hundreds and even thousands of monotonous lines.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Even if the essential part of a poetic piece tends to assume a certain pattern it does not mean that the whole piece should be given a patterned form.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell