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n. The study of the metrical structure of verse.

n. A particular system of versification.

n. The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.

n. The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

n. That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

n. The science of the quantity of syllables and of pronunciation as affecting versification; in a wider sense, metrics, or the elements of metrics, considered as a part of grammar (see metrics, 2).

n. (prosody) a system of versification

n. the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

n. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

"And then, I felt harassed teaching a seminar in prosody — teaching form — at the graduate school level to unwilling, even surly students who were only taking it because they needed the credit."

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orthography    philology    syntax    paragraphing    versification    accidence    grammar    metre    pronunciation    phonology