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This paper is aimed at examining the poetics of translation proposed by Henri Meschonnic and weighing on translatability based on his poetics of rhythm. To introduce Korean literature to the field of the world literature, it is important to select a good literary work. It has themes about Korean historical and cultural features connected to the common concerns of humanity, and clearly reveals the writer's stylistic uniqueness. In addition, a proper strategy should be selected to translate the uniqueness inherent in such a great work. For figuring out the translatability through poetics of rhythm, a Korean novel, Song of the Sword and its English translation are analyzed based on the prosody and syntax, the two cores of Meschonnic‘s rhythm theory in this paper. As a result of analyzing, it was confirmed that the interaction of the rhythm in the original text was fully embodied in the translation, and that the thematic network was properly implemented through the interaction of words rather than simple language conversion. It is expected that the poetics of rhythm could be a new strategy to translate Korean literature in the future.