Josiah
Senior Member
- Location
- 50 miles east of Cincinnati, OH
Especially for the poets among us as well as for the lovers of poetry.
prosody
[pros-uh-dee]
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.
Example: Length of interval, and not accent, is therefore the determining element in prosody.
prosody
[pros-uh-dee]
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.
Example: Length of interval, and not accent, is therefore the determining element in prosody.
