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cadence vs prosody

prosody vs cadence

cadence and prosody both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cadence Yes No No No
prosody Yes No No No
As nouns, prosody is a hypernym of cadence; that is, prosody is a word with a broader meaning than cadence:
  • cadence: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  • prosody: (prosody) a system of versification
Other hypernyms of cadence include poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern.
cadence (noun) prosody (noun)
a recurrent rhythmical series the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
the close of a musical section the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse (prosody) a system of versification
Difference between cadence and prosody

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