speech rhythm

Noun

Meaning

the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

rhythm

Hypernyms

guide inflection prosody template templet

Examples

the rhythm of Frost's poetry Source: Internet

Matthiessen (1941), 428–429 Melville's diction depended upon no source, and his prose is not based on anybody else's verse but on "a sense of speech rhythm". Source: Internet

Quoted in Matthiessen (1941), 429 The prose is not based on anybody else's verse but on "a sense of speech rhythm". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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