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prosody

The rhythm, intonation, and stress patterns of poetry. The term, now rather archaic, may also be applied to the rhythms of prose or speech.



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He was a master of metre, and contributed certain modifications to the laws of Chinese prosody which exist to the present day.
I taught myself the language, or began to do so, when I knew nothing of the English grammar but the prosody at the end of the book.
Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers.
 
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