1. cadence - Noun
2. cadence - Verb
3. Cadence - Proper noun
A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
See Cadency.
Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
A uniform time and place in marching.
The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
To regulate by musical measure.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTherefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source. Jean-Philippe Rameau
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. Michael Chabon
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. John Dryden
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail. Kathleen Raine
To begin with, the basis of English poetry is rhythm, or, as some would prefer to call it, cadence. This rhythm is obtained by mingling stressed and unstressed syllables. John Gould Fletcher
I take this cadence from a man named Yeats: I take it and I give it back again: For other tunes and other wanton beats Have tossed my heart and fiddled through my brain. Yes, I was dancing mad, and how That came to be the bears and Yeats would know. Theodore Roethke