Prosody

Prosody

The broad study or science of how language is handled in the composition of poetry. The term encompasses versification (meter, rhyme, traditional forms); Anglo-Saxon poetics; syllable-count methods and forms; free verse; distortion and dissonance applied to traditional methods; sprung rhythm; and any specific stylistic rules or requirements of special poetic movements. See foot, meter, verse, caesura, orality.

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