(noun) the study of versification / (noun) the systematic study of metrical structure / (noun) a particular system, theory, or style of versification / (noun) the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language
range from classical prosody to Dutch oils to Baroque quartets
Wallace is a master at balancing where to place notes, always minding the prosody of his prose.
In a public school closed to the public, in a suit that felt like a costume, while pretending to argue about policy, he was seized, however briefly, by an experience of prosody.
the prosody itself rooted in the urban black tradition
This style, an overwrought prosody straining to evoke mischievous brilliance
This second artificial tennis ecstasy, this prosodic counterfeit, can-unlike the first real raw experience--forge a bond between the writer at his desk in 1991 and the readers in the future
afterword for Derivative Sport
Not out of English prosody but the fluids of organism
what was really going on at the level of prosody was not a presentation of the image as a picture but an analysis of the constitutive elements of the image as it is being presented
what a long poem needs is a prosody that will carry it when the writing isn’t especially brilliant
Hers is extremely tragic poetry, not only in subject matter—this is not big news,especially in the Russian realm—but in her language, her prosody