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What does prosody mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
  2. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.
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The second edition of 1575 tops this up with, among other things, the first treatise on prosody in English.
Sometimes his structures would be clear in a spoken form, but strain the capacities of punctuation in the absence of prosody.
Finally, this Sunday strip has no connection to syntax or prosody, but does highlight the inadequacy of modern lexicography.
It is therefore quite difficult to separate the prosody of the language from that of the song.
Traditional prosody describes the rhythm of poetry as the meaningful counterpoint of speech pattern against a fixed abstract meter.
Her diction, her art of prosody, the amorous passion that he brings into her troubling singing make up for her hard and rather metallic tone.

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