Prosody: alternatives and connections

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

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of Beat

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The act or state of declining or sinking.

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A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also…

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A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to im…

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A thundering; thunder.

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A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

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Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syl…

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The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.

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In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effec…

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Distress.

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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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The principles and rules of the art of poetry.

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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and…

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The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

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