Hypertext Webster Gateway: "prosody"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prosody \Pros"o*dy\, n. [L. prosodia the tone or accent of a
syllable, Gr. ? a song sung to, or with, an accompanying
song, the accent accompanying the pronunciation; ? to + ?
song, ode: cf. F. prosodie. See {Ode}.]
That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of
syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or
metrical composition.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
prosody
n 1: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language [syn: {inflection}]
2: a system of versification [syn: {poetic rhythm}, {rhythmic
pattern}]
3: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
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