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prosody

pro suh dee

  • n  the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  • n  (prosody) a system of versification
  • n  the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

  • Faster than you could rhyme "niggaz" and "triggaz" (standard rap prosody) people were asking whether rappers -- especially those from the Thugs-'R'-Us subcategory called gangsta .
  • Although the limerick form appears in few prosody handbooks, Asimov followed strict, traditional rules.
  • Loosely grouped into genres, including fiction, journalism, autobiography and the experimental, works are accompanied by comix-themed prosody from the likes of John Updike and Glen .
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  • Insightful New Poetry Collection Inspires Wisdom in Everyday Life
    Violet Rose’s “Simple Pleasures/Reflections of Life” guides readers through to the best parts of life with an amazing meditative prosody and the Spirit’s guidance. (PRWeb August 05, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/VioletRose/SimplePleasures/prweb10996218.htm
    Aug. 6, 2013 - PRWeb
Quotes

  • Jack Kerouac in San Jose Mercury News
    Kerouac called his style "spontaneous bop prosody" and highly recommended it as the most-efficacious way to get one's thoughts correctly and quickly onto paper.
  • Joseph Brodsky in International Herald Tribune
    In an introduction to her poems, Brodsky wrote: "They will survive because language is older than state and because prosody always survives history. In fact, it hardly needs history; all it needs is a poet, and Akhmatova was just that."

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