prosody

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Verse such as this would permit of every rhythmical variation known in English prosody, and through the appeal of its rhythm would offer the dramatist opportunities for emotional effect that prose would not allow him; but at the same time it could be spoken with entire naturalness by actors as ultra-modern as Mme.

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  1. noun The study of the metrical structure of verse.
  2. noun A particular system of versification.

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  • And to prove to you, Princess, my attention in reading your works, I will venture to observe to you that in the French Romance "Comme a vingt ans" the prosody is neglected in the third couplet. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
  • His graceful "Fly, White Butterflies," and "In Harbor," and the dramatic setting of "The Loreley," the jovial "Gather Ye Rosebuds" of jaunty Rob Herrick, the foppish tragedy of "La Vie est Vaine" (in which the composer's French prosody is a whit askew), that gallant, sweet song, "My True Love Hath My Heart," and a gracious setting of Heine's flower-song, are all noteworthy lyrics. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
  • Then turning to Frank, he demanded, "Was it not yourself, Mr. Francis Ardry, that told me, when you took the liberty of introducing this person to me, that he was addicted to philosophy, prosody, and what not To be sure I did," said Frank Well, sir, and are not those the humanities, or are you as ignorant as your friend here You pretend to be a humanist, sir," said he to me, "but I will take the liberty of showing your utter ignorance. —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
  • The eternal round of concord, prosody, and syntax has charms for me from habit: the rule of three is preferable to the problems of Euclid, and even the Latin grammar has its delights. —  Jacob Faithful
  • Greek prosody, and Latin, which was based upon Greek, rejected it, partly perhaps because it was too simple an ornament for the highly cultivated Greek taste, especially on account of the great frequency of similar inflectional endings, and perhaps because it was not entirely consistent with the quantitative principle. —  The Principles of English Versification
 

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  1. Middle English prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, accent, from Greek prosōidiā, song sung to music, accent : pros-, pros- + ōidē, song; see ode.

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  1. = French prosodie = Spanish Portuguese Italian prosodia, from Latin prosodia, from Greek προσῳδία, a song with accompaniment, modulation of voice, especially tone or accentuation, mark of pronunciation, from πρός, to, + ᾠδή, a song: see ode.
 

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