prosody

1. The patterns of stress and intonation in a language (synset 107097924)
   is a type of: delivery, manner of speaking, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
   subtypes:

   • intonation, modulation, pitch contour - rise and fall of the voice pitch
   • caesura - a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
   • enjambement, enjambment - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
   • accent, emphasis, stress - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
   • rhythm, speech rhythm - the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
   same as: inflection
2. (prosody) a system of versification (synset 107108561)
   referred to in: metrics, prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
   is a type of: versification - the form or metrical composition of a poem
   subtypes:

   • beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
   • sprung rhythm - a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech
   is a part of: poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
   same as: poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern
3. The study of poetic meter and the art of versification (synset 106179741)
   associated with:

   • acatalectic - (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables
   • alexandrine - (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
   • catalectic - (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
   • hypercatalectic - (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot
   • poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern - (prosody) a system of versification
   • beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
   • foot, metrical foot, metrical unit - (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
   • measured, metric, metrical - the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
   • iambic - of or consisting of iambs
   • dactylic - of or consisting of dactyls
   • spondaic - of or consisting of spondees
   • trochaic - of or consisting of trochees
   is a type of: poetics - study of poetic works
   same as: metrics

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