prosodic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to poetic meter and versification.
She provided an analysis of the epics based on narrative style, prosodic structure, and her observation of how they were recited.
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Linguistics. of or relating to patterns of stress, intonation, etc..
In the text-to-speech software, he showed us how to manipulate prosodic features such as duration, pitch, and stress for greater realism.
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Etymology
Origin of prosodic
First recorded in 1760–65; prosod(y) ( def. ) + -ic ( def. )
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But the intellectual strut and prosodic perplexities of many of the scoffers left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mirror as a whole has bibliographical and prosodic rather than literary interest.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
They are ruder in form; and alternately rhymed, or distinguished from prose only by a certain irregular but prosodic measure, sometimes trochaic, but mostly dactylic.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
It is, of course, fair to remember that Anglo-Saxon verse—now, according to the orthodox, to be ranked among the strictest prosodic kinds—was long thought to be as formless as this.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
Critically, they are nothing; but historically, they dominated the popular prosodic thought of the eighteenth century.
From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Edward Bysshe
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