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Difference between verse and prosody

verse

Definitions

verb

  1. familiarize through thorough study or experience
  2. compose verses or put into verse

noun

  1. literature in metrical form
  2. a piece of poetry
  3. a line of metrical text

Examples

The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.

A heart will not be hurt for pursuing a dream, when you truly want something, all the universe conspires to help you complete the.

Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?

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prosody

Definitions

noun

  1. (prosody) a system of versification
  2. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  3. the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

Examples

Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in English; [31] but in general the critical writing done in the United States has been of a low order, and most

The distich caused discussion regarding the quantity of "hic", but the pope defended the prosody of Voltaire who confirmed his opinion by a quotation from Virgil which he said ought to be the epitaph of

The second edition of 1575 tops this up with, among other things, the first treatise on prosody in English.

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