| Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary 1,759,877,998 visitors served. |
|
Dictionary/ thesaurus | Medical dictionary | Legal dictionary | Financial dictionary | Acronyms | Idioms | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
prosody |
Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Wikipedia, Hutchinson | 0.03 sec. |
|
prosody: see versification versification, principles of metrical practice in poetry. In different literatures poetic form is achieved in various ways; usually, however, a definite and predictable pattern is evident in the language. ..... Click the link for more information. . prosodyStudy of the elements of language, especially metre, that contribute to rhythmic and acoustic effects in poetry. The basis of “traditional” prosody in English is the classification of verse according to the syllable stress of its lines. Effects such as rhyme scheme, alliteration, and assonance further influence a poem's “sound meaning.” Nonmetrical prosodic study is sometimes applied to modern poetry, and visual prosody is used when verse is “shaped” by its typographical arrangement. Prosody also involves examining the subtleties of a poem's rhythm, its “flow,” the historical period to which it belongs, the poetic genre, and the poet's individual style. prosody 1. the study of poetic metre and of the art of versification, including rhyme, stanzaic forms, and the quantity and stress of syllables 2. a system of versification How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
|
| ? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | |
|---|---|---|
In these ways the poem can be understood as Mallarmean and in tune especially with the late nineteenth-century symbolist masterwork Un Coup de Des, a poem "decomposed, deprived of its spatial, typographical, prosodic and even intellectual integrity, its syntax no longer a single 'pivot' but several conflicting centres of gravity, its rhymes either invisible or so weak as to seem coincidental, its resolutions loose ends" (Robb 194). Insofar as the performed work is granted a reciprocal status to the text, isochrony becomes a dominant prosodic element" (14-15). Opicius' generic decision to cast his semi-allegorical laudatio of Henry VII in the form of a pastoral dialogue is of a piece with other such decisions that he took, in other words: the prosodic decision to use unrhymed hexameters and elegiacs, as well as lyric meter, and the stylistic decision to decorate the king's 1492 accomplishments with epic conceits. |
| Encyclopedia |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Free toolbar & extensions |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|---|