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Noun: prosody  prósudee
  1. The patterns of stress and intonation in a language
    - inflection
     
  2. (prosody) a system of versification
    - poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern
     
  3. The study of poetic meter and the art of versification
    - metrics

Derived forms: prosodies

See also: prosodic

Type of: delivery, manner of speaking, poetics, speech, versification

Part of: poem, verse form

Encyclopedia: Prosody