The article deals with the prose rhythm on the example of the Mari Luise Kaschnitz short story «Who knows his father». This story rhythm is based on the narration and reasoning composition form rhythms and is supplemented by expression of grammar-syntactic and lexical-andstylistic means of speech. The accumulating rhythm of the story arises from the specifrc sentence, syntagma, tact, and pause length, enumerations, repeats, twin formations, antithesis, etc.