Prosody
noun
1.
the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
2.
a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification:
Milton’s prosody.
3.
Linguistics. the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.
noun
1.
the study of poetic metre and of the art of versification, including rhyme, stanzaic forms, and the quantity and stress of syllables
2.
a system of versification
3.
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
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