Associations to the word «Prosody»

Wiktionary

PROSODY, noun. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
PROSODY, noun. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

Dictionary definition

PROSODY, noun. The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
PROSODY, noun. (prosody) a system of versification.
PROSODY, noun. The study of poetic meter and the art of versification.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats