That's true, but that's also why it doesn't work. Think about the stress patterns that actually constitute rhythm:

  momENtum, SYNcoPATion, RHYthm and PATtern  
  ___--___  ---__---___  ---___ ___ ---____

Nonomatapoeia, I fear.

I 'hear' only one stress in each.

moMENtum [beat] syncoPATion [beat] rhythm-and-PATtern [no beat so continues straight on]

And all three patterns, including the beat, take the same time, with the remainder of the sentence continuing at the same speed as PATtern.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhythm: /ˈɹɪ.ð(ə)m/

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pattern: /ˈpat(ə)n/ or /ˈpædəɹn/

I do have an English (UK) accent if that helps. But of course it's not unusual to stress different syllables when reading poetry or prose for effect.