prosody (n.)

  1. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

    [ Syn: inflection ]

  2. (prosody) a system of versification

    [ Syn: poetic rhythm , rhythmic pattern ]

  3. the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

    [ Syn: metrics ]

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