Prosody (noun)
pros-o-dee
The patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.
Late 15th century from Latin prosodia ‘accent of a syllable’, from Greek prosōidia ‘song sung to music, tone of a syllable’, from pros ‘towards’ + ōidē ‘song’.
Example sentences
“The piece really captured the prosody of the original.”
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