prosodic
adjective
of or relating to poetic meter and versification.
Example Sentences
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But it proves none the less useful in another direction: in simply naming a particular foot it shows at the same time its prosodical measure and character, as will now be explained in detail.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Hymns of such sort pass away, wanting prosodical tact.
From Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most marked difference is, perhaps, in the length or prosodical quantity of the vowels; and both of the causes I have mentioned concur to produce this effect.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
Yet it would be useless to deny having sometimes made choice of particular verses, all other considerations being equal, for their poetic or literary value over and above their prosodical.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
It was an attempt to create, in defiance of the public, in contemptuous disregard of established ‘literary opinion’, a sort of prosodical chapel or school of poetry.
From The Future of English Poetry by Edmund Gosse
